For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

The moral equalizes all; enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under the whipof the driver, the slave shall feel his equality with saints and heroes.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong

When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.

Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.