Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.

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.

Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.