Duty is ours and events are God's.

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men have the same moral nature, they have the same rights.

I am a mystery to myself.

One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.

There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom, which will respond to truth when it is uttered with calmness and dignity.