I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream.

What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and him who is caught in New England and made a Unitarian minister of?

I would that I were worthy to be any man's Friend.

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

Prominent and influential editors, accustomed to deal with politicians, men of an infinitely lower grade, say, in their ignorance,that he acted "on the principle of revenge." They do not know the man. They must enlarge themselves to conceive of him.... They have got to conceive of a man of faith and of religious principle, and not a politician or an Indian; of a man who did not wait till he was personally interfered with or thwarted in some harmless business before he gave his life to the cause of the oppressed.

As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.