But at midnight — strange, mystic hour, when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin — then came the messenger.
But I want it done now, said Miss Ophelia.What's your hurry?Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in, said Miss Ophelia.
There have been times when I have thought, if the whole country would sink, and hide all this injustice and misery from the light, I would willingly sink with it.
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.
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 appreciated, at first.
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.
Oh my Eva, whose little hour on earth did so much good... what account have I to give for my long years?
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...
If ever you have had a romantic, uncalculating friendship, - a boundless worship and belief in some hero of your soul, - if ever you have so loved, that all cold prudence, all selfish worldly consider...
I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
Could I ever have loved you, had I not known you better than you know yourself?
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...
Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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...
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...
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,...