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.

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

I want in all cases to do right, and most particularly so, in all cases with women.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong.