What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.

I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.

Let nothing come between you and the light.

Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.

The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition; and Massachusettsis one of the confederated overseers to prevent their escape.

Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has shown me the causeway to it.

When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.