Frederick Douglass: “Slaves sing more to make themselves happy, than to express their happiness.”

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

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.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.