A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it.

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.

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.

Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.

Good nature is often a mere matter of health.