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The Inconsistency Of The Institution Of Domestic Slavery With The Principles Of The Declaration Of Independence Was Seen And Lamented . . . No Insincerity Or Hypocrisy Can Be Fairly Laid To Their Charge. Never From Their Lips Was Heard One Syllable Of Attempt To Justify The Institution Of Slavery. They Universally Considered It As A Reproach Fastened Upon Them By The Unnatural Step-mother Country And They Saw That Before The Principles Of The Declaration Of Independence Slavery, In Common With Every Other Mode Of Oppression, Was Destined Sooner Or Later To Be Banished From The Earth.

However Tiresome To Others, The Most Indefatigable Orator Is Never Tedious To Himself. The Sound Of His Own Voice Never Loses Its Harmony To His Own Ear; And Among The Delusions, Which Self-love Is Ever Assiduous In Attempting To Pass Upon Virtue, He Fancies Himself To Be Sounding The Sweetest Tones

There Are Three Points Of Doctrine The Belief Of Which Forms The Foundation Of All Morality. The First Is The Existence Of God; The Second Is The Immortality Of The Human Soul; And The Third Is A Future State Of Rewards And Punishments. Suppose It Possible For A Man To Disbelieve Either Of These Three Articles Of Faith And That Man Will Have No Conscience, He Will Have No Other Law Than That Of The Tiger Or The Shark. The Laws Of Man May Bind Him In Chains Or May Put Him To Death, But They Never Can Make Him Wise, Virtuous, Or Happy.

The Art Of Making Love, Muffled Up In Furs, In The Open Air, With The Thermometer At Zero, Is A Yankee Invention.

I Am A Warrior, So That My Son May Be A Merchant, So That His Son May Be A Poet.