All other swindlers upon earth are nothing compared to self-swindlers.

There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast.

If you have a suspicion in your own breast, keep that suspicion in your own breast.

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of
specious humbug designed to conceal it's desire for economic control of
the Southern states.