If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of hisown comfort,--who would not so much as part with his ice- cream, to save them from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

When the gods come among men, they are not known.

Fate is unpenetrated causes.

The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.