Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
There is never a case when the root is in order and yet the branches are in order.
Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he was forever the victim of inconsistency.
Once you learn to read you will be forever free.
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
It was worth half-cent to kill a "nigger", and a half-cent to bury one.
I had a wholesome dread of the consequences of running in debt.
Our destiny is largely in our hands.
Without struggle there can be no forward progress.
I had as well be killed running as die standing.
It is easier to build strong men, than to repair broken ones.
Without struggle there is no success
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the eastern shore where I was born a slave.
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.