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

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

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.

It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do that's got some dignity to it! Risk your souls! Risk them in good causes; then if you lose them, why should you care? Reform!

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.