Frederick Douglass: “I found, in them all, warm hearts and noble spirits.”

Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.

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

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.