“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.