The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.