Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor

In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence.

Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.

There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.

Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant.

Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.

The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.