My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.

While we see the Course of the final abolition of human Slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who Chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a Single day.

My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts.

It is history that teaches us to hope.

He has lost his left arm, but I my right.

We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.