When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.

Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.

he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.

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

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.