I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of the whole house. It keeps them all young.

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that disaster; by only hanging a few moments by the neck; and I feel quite determined to make the utmost possible out of a defeat.

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!