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

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

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 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.

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

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.

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