Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.

Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory.

The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth of the land.

A simple woman down in Tyngsborough, at whose house I once stopped to get a draught of water, when I said, recognizing the bucket, that I had stopped there nine years before for the same purpose, asked if I was not a traveler, supposing that I had been traveling ever since, and had now come round again.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and labors of men. Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.