There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.