The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

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.

An empire is an immense egotism.

'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

Every reform was once a private opinion.

I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.