Frederick Douglass: “This volume was, indeed, a rich treasure, and every opportunity afforded me, for a time, was spent in diligently…”

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

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

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

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