There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in all the land but one - the pulpit. It yielded last; it always does. It fought a strong and stubborn fight, and then did what it always does, joined the procession - at the tail end. Slavery fell. The slavery texts in the Bible remained; the practice changed; that was all.

Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.