It Is Not Observed In History That

The Test Of Civilization Is The Estimate Of Woman. Among Savages She Is A Slave. In The Dark Ages Of Christianity She Is A Toy And A Sentimental Goddess. With Increasing Moral Light, And Greater Liberty, And More Universal Justice, She Begins To Develop As An Equal Human Being.

A Man's Country Is Not A Certain Area Of Land, Of Mountains, Rivers, And Woods, But It Is A Principle And Patriotism Is Loyalty To That Principle.

I Walked Beside The Evening Sea And Dreamed A Dream That Could Not Be; The Waves That Plunged Along The Shore Said Only: "dreamer, Dream No More!"

The Pride Of Ancestry Increases In The Ratio Of Distance.

There Is Very Little Moral Mixture In The 'antislavery' Feeling Of This Country. A Great Deal Is Abstract Philanthropy; Part Is Hatred Of Slaveholders; A Great Part Is Jealousy For White Labor, Very Little Is Consciousness Of Wrong Done And The Wish To Right It.