So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

I can't spare this man, he fights!

A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

Nothing is stronger than gentleness.