If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

I do not hesitate to say, that those who call themselves Abolitionists should at once effectually withdraw their support, both inperson and property, from the government of Massachusetts, and not wait until they constitute a majority of one, before they suffer the right to prevail through them. I think that it is enough if they have God on their side, without waiting for that other one. Moreover, any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.

The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.