Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

In the first place, an unjust law exists in this Commonwealth, by which marriages between persons of different color is pronounced illegal. I am perfectly aware of the gross ridicule to which I may subject myself by alluding to this particular; but I have lived too long, and observed too much, to be disturbed by the world's mockery.