Frederick Douglass: “Yet I did hope for success, and persisted in the undertaking.”

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.

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