the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary hammer-stroke in this life, but finding its true element only when it sails out into the ocean of eternity.

I don't know as I am fit for anything and I have thought that I could wish to die young and let the remembrance of me and my faults perish in the grave rather than live, as I fear I do, a trouble to everyone.... Sometimes I could not sleep and have groaned and cried till midnight.

My vocation to preach on paper.

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