In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike. |
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done. |
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. |
Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers. |
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn |
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man |
Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel. |
O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, 'Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory! |
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. |
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm |
So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery. |
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women |
The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone |
The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone |
The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone |