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.

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

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling in the nation must be quickened, the conscience of the nation must be roused, the propriety of the nation must be startled, the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed: and its crimes against God and man must be denounced.

A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.