We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.

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.

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

As for health, consider yourself well.

Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone.

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone.