Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.

We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.

While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.