Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.

It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

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

And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all