Who has not imagined to himself a country inn, where the traveler shall really feel in, and at home, and at his public house, who ...was before at his private house?--whose host is indeed a host, and a lord of the land, a self-appointed brother of his race; called to his place, beside, by all the winds of heaven and his good genius, as truly as the preacher is called to preach; a man of such universal sympathies, and so broad and genial a human nature, that he would fain sacrifice the tender but narrow ties of private friendship to a broad, sun-shiny, fair-weather-and- foul friendship for his race; who loves men, not as a philosopher, with philanthropy, nor as an overseer of the poor, with charity, but by a necessity of his nature, as he loves dogs and horses; and standing at his open door from morning till night would fain see more and more of them come along the highway, and is never satiated. To him the sun and moon are but travelers, the one by day and the other by night; and they too patronize his house.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If, then, we would indeed restore mankind ... let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang... over our own brows, and take up a little life into our pores. Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I sometimes wonder that we can be so frivolous ... as to attend to the gross but somewhat foreign form of servitude called Negro S...lavery, there are so many keen and subtle masters that enslave both north and south. It is hard to have a southern overseer; it is worse to have a northern one; but worst of all when you are the slave-driver of yourself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »