To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, stand upon the immutable and everlasting principles of equal and exact justice. The days of unrequited labor are numbered with the past. Fugitive slave laws are only remembered as relics of that barbarism which John Wesley pronounced "the sum of all villainies," and whose knowledge of its blighting effects was matured by his travels in Georgia and the Carolinas.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.