“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”

Be a great speaker, become a leader.

Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.

Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

Virtue is not always amiable.

No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.

We understand now, we’ve been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.

If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.

A politician in this country must be the man of a party. I would fain be the man of my whole country.

Go on and improve in everything worthy.

To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all His laws.

If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.

Posterity – you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.

I’m over the moon but burned under the sun, what I’ve gained I’ve lost all along.

To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.

That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.

In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once

I have what I have and I am happy I’ve lost what I’ve lost and I am still happy – outlook.

The parts she had buried away were never lost just patiently waiting to be unearthed.