The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.

The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart.

Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.

I think people are intolerant of artists.

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.

I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.