Letitia Elizabeth Landon

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

For me, I always think of the image of sweeping out my footprints as I walk through a scene.

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.