George was, in truth, one of the sort who evidently have made some mistake in coming into this world at all, as their internal furniture is in no way suited to its general courses and currents.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide wi...
The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don't give ye a mother but once. Ye'll never see such another woman, Mas'r George—not if ye live to be a hundred years old. So, now, you hold on to...
Some jokes are less agreeable than others
Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
My country again! Mr. Wilson, you have a country; but what country have I, or any one like me, born of slave mothers? What laws are there for us? We don't make them,—we don't consent to them,—we have...
I believe I'm done for, said Tom. The cussed sneaking dog, to leave me to die alone! My poor old mother always told me 'twould be so.
I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
Tom read,—Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.Them's good words, enough, said the woman; who says 'em?The Lord, said Tom.I jest wish I know'd whar to find Him...
Soon after the completion of his college course, his whole nature was kindled into one intense and passionate effervescence of romantic passion. His hour came,—the hour that comes only once; his star...
Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
Liberty! -- Electric word!
Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor, in the town of P——, in Kentucky. There were no servants present,...
In how many families do you hear the legend that all the goodness and graces of the living are nothing to the peculiar charms of one who is not. It is as if heaven had an especial band of angels, whos...
If it were your Harry, mother, or your Willie, that were going to be torn from you by a brutal trader, tomorrow morning,—if you had seen the man, and heard that the papers were signed and delivered, a...
Could I ever have loved you, had I not known you better than you know yourself?
All men are free and equal, in the grave,
Eliza, said George, people that have friends, and houses, and lands, and money, and all those things, can't love as we do, who have nothing but each other. ... And your loving me,—why, it was almost l...