I am gaining in health slowly, and am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, – being fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose.

So far as I ever observed God’s dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions which did penetrate my heart, and in a way peculiar to themselves.

I live in a beautiful place, I work at something I love, I make enough money to live, and my demands on the world’s resources are very meager. What’s unusual about this idyllic circumstance is that there is plenty of room for more to join.

The act of focusing our mightiest intellectual resources on the elusive goal of goto-less programs has helped us get our minds off all those really tough and possibly unresolvable problems and issues with which today’s professional programmer would otherwise have to grapple.

No man, with a man’s heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. – Happy he who is brave enough to push on another stage of the journey, and rest where there are “living springs of water, and three-score and ten palms.”

Symptoms are the body’s mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

I don’t think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.

These men are all talk; What is needed is action – action!

The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!