Frederick Douglass: “The promise had but one fault--it seemed too good to be true.”

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

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.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.