I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.

Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days.

I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose.

It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.

I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone.