He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

Violence begins where knowledge ends.

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.