I Have Called This Principle, By Which

In My Simplicity, I Remember Wondering Why Every Gentleman Did Not Become An Ornithologist.

Attention, If Sudden And Close, Graduates Into Surprise; And This Into Astonishment; And This Into Stupefied Amazement.

I Agree With Agassiz That Dogs Possess Something Very Like Conscience.

Some Few, And I Am One Of Them, Even Wish To God, Though At The Loss Of Millions Of Lives, That The North Would Proclaim A Crusade Against Slavery. In The Long-run, A Million Horrid Deaths Would Be Amply Repaid In The Cause Of Humanity. Great God! How I Should Like To See The Greatest Curse On Earth - Slavery - Abolished!

It May Be Doubted Whether Any Character Can Be Named Which Is Distinctive Of A Race And Is Constant.