The key that unlocks a door is a key to keep if you want to go through that door again.

The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride.

A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.

Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother's, but not every night.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse and even injury. The internal satisfaction of a good conscience is always present, and time will do us justice in the minds of the people, even those at present the most prejudiced against us.