“Here in my heart, my happiness, my house.Here inside the lighted window is my love, my hope, my life.Peace is my companion on the pathway winding to the threshold.Inside this portal dwells new strength in the security, serenity, and radiance of those I love above life itself.Here two will build new dreams--dreams that tomorrow will come true.The world over, these are the thoughts at eventide when footsteps turn ever homeward.In the haven of the hearthside is rest and peace and comfort.”

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”

“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”

“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.”

“We shall need all the anti-slavery feeling in the country, and more; you can go home and try to bring the people to your views, and you may say anything you like about me, if that will help... When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.”