"Everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?"

"Thou canst say, who hast seen that same expression on the face dearest to thee;-that look indescribable, hopeless, unmistakable, that says to thee that thy beloved is no longer thine."

"The past, the present, and the future are really one: they are today"

"It's true, Christian-like or not; and is about as Christian-like as most other things in the world, said Alfred."

"Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline."

"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."

"Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed"

"Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion."

"The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon."

"There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing"

"An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels strongly, healthily and justly, on the great interests of humanity, is a constant benefactor to the human race."

"That’s right; put on the steam, fasten down the escape-valve, and sit on it, and see there you’ll land."

"Is there anything in it glorious and dear for a nation, that is not also glorious and dear for a man? What is freedom to a nation, but freedom to the individuals in it?"

"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."

"Oh my Eva, whose little hour on earth did so much good... what account have I to give for my long years?"

"All men are free and equal, in the grave,"

"The water of the river is the calmest, where the deepest."

"Liberty! -- Electric word!"

"I’s wicked I is. I’s mighty wicked; anyhow I can’t help it."

"Perhaps you laugh too, dear reader; but you know humanity comes out in a variety of strange forms now-a-days, and there is no end to the odd things that humane people will say and do."

"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."

"Perhaps," said Miss Ophelia, "it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm."

"Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted."

"Once in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us... not the person that we are, But the angel we may be."