There Are Only Two Things

It Is Finer To Bring One Noble Human Being Into The World And Rear It Well... Than To Kill Ten Thousand.

Marriage Has Been A Very Rich And Beautiful Development Of My Life. Month By Month As We Live Together We Seem To Come Nearer To Each Other; And To Feel A More Complete Fellowship. I Do Not Feel That It In Any Way Fetters Or Narrows My World: - It Seems Rather To Enlarge It.

Love That Has Been Given To You Is Too Sacred A Thing To Be Talked Of To Anyone ... Except Just To The Person Who Is Like Part Of You And Who Will Feel It As You Do.

The Troubles Of The Young Are Soon Over; They Leave No External Mark. If You Wound The Tree In Its Youth The Bark Will Quickly Cover The Gash; But When The Tree Is Very Old, Peeling The Bark Off, And Looking Carefully, You Will See The Scar There Still. All That Is Buried Is Not Dead.

Slavery May, Perhaps, Be Best Compared To The Infantile Disease Of Measles; A Complaint Which So Commonly Attacks The Young Of Humanity In Their Infancy, And When Gone Through At That Period Leaves Behind It So Few Fatal Marks; But Which When It Normally Attacks The Fully Developed Adult Becomes One Of The Most Virulent And Toxic Of Diseases, Often Permanently Poisoning The Constitution Where It Does Not End In Death.