Frederick Douglass: “Sorrow and desolation have their songs, as well as joy and peace.”

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

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

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

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