I was too weak to defend, so I attacked

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

We have only one rule here - to act like a gentleman at all times.

Any victory would be dear at such a price.

You must be careful how you walk and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.

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.

Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.