Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, and disparages such as say and do not, overlooking the fact, that some men, namely, poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression, and confounds them with those whose province is action, but who quit to imitate the sayers.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

The surest poison is time.

It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.