"I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel."

"Public opinion, though often an erring, is generally an irresistible power."

"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act ane…"

"I shall try to do my duty, and I shall try to do it conscientiously."