Finished a letter for the New York Herald, trying to enlist American zeal to stop the East Coast slave-trade: I pray for a blessing on it from the All-Gracious. [Through a coincidence a singular interest attaches to this entry. The concluding words of the letter he refers to are as follows:—] "All I can add in my loneliness is, may Heaven's rich blessing come down on everyone, American, English, or Turk, who will help to heal the open sore of the world.

Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine, messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

Many of the white people [who] have been instruments in the hands of God for our good, even such as have held us in captivity, are now pleading our cause with earnestness and zeal.

Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again

Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan.

But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason.

World vision is getting on your heart what has always been on God's heart.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).

Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.

It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.