Our expenses are all for conformity.

The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve,and be exterminated. But if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him: he will survive and play his part. So now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint, and the Haytian heroes, or of the leaders of their race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.

I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.

One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men."

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.