Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.