I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?

no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite

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.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.