Frederick Douglass: “I love that religion that makes it the duty of its disciples to visit the father less and the widow in their affliction.”

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.