The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.

Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

We are all human, and all do wrong.