All Mankind, Not Excluding Americans, Are Sinners--miserable

Nature Has Not Implanted Any Power In Man That Was Not Meant To Be Exercised At Times, Though Too Often Our Powers Have Been Abused. The Privilege, Inborn And Inalienable, That Every Man Has Of Dying Himself, And Inflicting Death Upon Another, Was Not Given To Us Without A Purpose. These Are The Last Resources Of An Insulted And Unendurable Existence.

Do Not Presume, Well-housed, Well-warmed, And Well-fed, To Criticize The Poor

But The Might-have-been Is But Boggy Ground To Build Upon.

Truly To Enjoy Bodily Warmth, Some Small Part Of You Must Be Cold, For There Is No Quality In This World That Is Not What It Is Merely By Contrast. Nothing Exists In Itself. If You Flatter Yourself That You Are All Over Comfortable, And Have Been So A Long Time, Then You Cannot Be Said To Be Comfortable Any More.

The Path To My Fixed Purpose Is Laid With Iron Rails Whereon My Soul Is Grooved To Run