Morality is of the highest importance-but for us, not for God.

I have some little notoriety for commiserating the oppressed condition of the negro; and I should be strangely inconsistent if I could favor any project for curtailing the existing rights of white men, even though born in different lands, and speaking different languages from myself.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is [in] his love of justice.

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ``all men are created equal;'' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.