There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

Be good and you will be lonesome

It is very wearing to be good

At bottom he [Carlyle] was probably fond of them [the Americans], but he was always able to conceal it.

A coin, sleeve button, or a collar button dropped in a bedroom will hide itself and be hard to find. A handkerchief in bed 'can't' be found.

The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a privileged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name