Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone...
«In my opinion, it is you considerate, humane men, that are responsible for all the brutality and outrage wrought by these wretches; because, if it were not for your sanction and influence, the whole...
When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean,And billows wild contend with angry roar,'Tis said, far down beneath the wild commotion,That peaceful stillness reigneth evermore. Far, far beneath, the nois...
What's your hurry?Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in, said Miss Ophelia.
The water of the river is the calmest, where the deepest.
Talk about keeping slaves, as if we did it for our convenience, said Marie. I'm sure, if we consulted that, we might let them all go at once.Evangeline fixed her large, serious eyes on her mother's fa...
Perhaps, said Miss Ophelia, it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.
Have not many of us, in the weary way of life, felt, in some hours, how far easier it were to die than to live?The martyr, when faced even by a death of bodily anguish and horror, finds in the very te...
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the secret instinct of decaying nature, or the soul's impulsive throb, as immortality draws on...
Tom opened his eyes, and looked upon his master. Ye poor miserable critter! he said, there ain't no more ye can do! I forgive ye, with all my soul! and he fainted entirely away.
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man
My view of Christianity is such, that I think no man can consistently profess it without throwing the whole weight of his being against the monstrous system of injustice that lies at the foundation of...
It was the first time that ever George had sat down on equal terms at any white man's table; and he sat down, at first, with some constraint, and awkwardness; but they all exhaled and went off like fo...
It is with the oppressed, enslaved, African race that I cast in my lot; and if I wished anything, I would wish myself two shades darker, rather than one lighter.
For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.
But, of old, there was One whose suffering changed an instrument of torture, degradation and shame, into a symbol of glory, honor, and immortal life; and, where His spirit is, neither degrading stripe...
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Look at me, now. Don't I sit before you, e very way, just as much a man as you are? Look at my face—look at my hands—look at my body, and the young man dr ew himself up proudly. Why am I not a man, as...
Everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?