People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed - who cannot speak for themselves.

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.

We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for no creature on God's earth is left more utterly unprotected and desolate than the slave in these circumstances.