Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.

I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.

Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

We can make ourselves say the kind things that rise in our hearts and tremble on our lips - do the gentle and helpful deeds which we long to do and shrink back from; and little by little, it will grow easier - the love spoken will bring back the answer of love - the kind deed will bring back a kind deed in return.