The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Everybody appreciates a compliment.

Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation.