"It is with the oppressed, enslaved, African race that I cast in my lot; and if I wished anything, I would wish myself two shades darker, rather than one lighter."

"Is there anything in it glorious and dear for a nation, that is not also glorious and dear for a man? What is freedom to a nation, but freedom to the individuals in it?"

"That’s right; put on the steam, fasten down the escape-valve, and sit on it, and see there you’ll land."

"An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels strongly, healthily and justly, on the great interests of humanity, is a constant benefactor to the human race."

"There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing"

"The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon."

"Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion."

"Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed"

"I believe I'm done for," said Tom. "The cussed sneaking dog, to leave me to die alone! My poor old mother always told me 'twould be so."

"Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline."

"It's true, Christian-like or not; and is about as Christian-like as most other things in the world, said Alfred."

"The past, the present, and the future are really one: they are today"

"Thou canst say, who hast seen that same expression on the face dearest to thee;-that look indescribable, hopeless, unmistakable, that says to thee that thy beloved is no longer thine."

"Everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?"

"But at midnight — strange, mystic hour, when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin — then came the messenger."

"In the midst of life we are in death,'" said Miss Ophelia."

"There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing; and you don't believe in it yourselves when it comes to practice."

"George was, in truth, one of the sort who evidently have made some mistake in coming into this world at all, as their internal furniture is in no way suited to its general courses and currents."

"Being an indigenous talent of the African race;"

"She was one of those busy creatures, that can be no more contained in one place than a sunbeam or a summer breeze"

"Look at the high and the low, all the world over, and it's the same story,—the lower class used up, body, soul and spirit, for the good of the upper."

"Obeying God never brings on public evils. I know it can’t. It’s always safest, all round, to do as He bids us."

"Marie was one of those unfortunately constituted mortals, in whose eyes whatever is lost and gone assumes a value which it never had in possession."

"There have been times when I have thought, if the whole country would sink, and hide all this injustice and misery from the light, I would willingly sink with it."

"No tear dropped over that pillow; in such straits as these, the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence."