But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.
The rule is to carry as little as possible.
You never gain something but that you lose something.
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
Write while the heat is in you.
They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death.