Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.

I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.

Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.