Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through.

If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of hisown comfort,--who would not so much as part with his ice- cream, to save them from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.

New arts destroy the old.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.