Frederick Douglass: “Her personal appearance and bearing are ineffaceably stamped upon my memory.”

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.