If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.