They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye.