...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery..

The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day….

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn..

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and inco….

The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it….

It has always been a favorite idea of mine, that there is so much of the human in every man, that the life of any one individual, however obscure, if….

All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that..

So we go, so little knowing what we touch and what touches us as we talk! We drop out a common piece of news, "Mr. So-and-so is dead, Miss Such-a-one….

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter..

I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appre….

Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and vi….

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity..

The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marria….

A ship is a beauty and a mystery wherever we see it..

Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin..

Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretc….

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dr….

The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is im….

What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia..

Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most ….

O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!.