Some jokes are less agreeable than others - Harriet Beecher Stowe

Could I ever have loved you, had I not known you better than you know yourself?

A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian church has a heavy account to answer. Not by combining together, to protect injustice and cruelty, and making a common capital of sin, is this Union to be saved, — but by repentance, justice and mercy; for, not surer is the eternal law by which the millstone sinks in the ocean, than that stronger law, by which injustice and cruelty shall bring on nations the wrath of Almighty God!

Well, good-by, Uncle Tom; keep a stiff upper lip.