If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West
You may be witty, but not satirical.
Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.
While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.
The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.