Letitia Elizabeth Landon

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

For me, I always think of the image of sweeping out my footprints as I walk through a scene.