Frederick Douglass: “In learning to read, I owe almost as much to the bitter opposition of my master, as to the kindly aid of my mistress.”

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

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.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.