It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

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.

Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

The funniest things are the forbidden.