Ne speaketh not; and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes.

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!

Our blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are bright and full of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead us astray, and their odor is deadly.

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.