Frederick Douglass: “I set this down as partly constitutional with my race, and partly conventional.”

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.

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

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

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.