A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.

The soul...is audible, not visible.

Often times we call a man [or woman] cold when he [or she] is only sad.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon!

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.