Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty.
I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.
The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.
I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.