The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Your organization will take on the personality of its top leaders

When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.