I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

These people´s God has shown them by a million acts that he respects none of the Bible´s statues. He breaks every one of them himself, adultery and all.