What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however, ancient, can be trusted without proof. ... Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.

They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.