john Brown’s effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place, and like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season in which we are born

My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.