Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.

Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo.

Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.