Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.

It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.

I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.