They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.

God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

Good nature is often a mere matter of health.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.