Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages

Success is full of promise till a man gets it and then it is last year's nest from which the birds have flown

By Labor the North has subdued Nature, changed a parsimonious soil to fertility, built dwellings for almost her whole population, raised the school-house, established the Church, encircled the globe with her ships, and made her books and her papers to be as blades of grass and as leave of the Summer for number. But in the South, labor, a badge of shame, is the father of misery. The slave labors, but with no cheer—it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens’ trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman and, of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother

Expedients are for the hour; principles for the ages

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of anther's heart, or its flame burns low

Love is the river of life in the world

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich