Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.

Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take onestep at a time, get a good foothold in it and advance carefully.

Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour until you have no time left to plant a tree, or vine or flower.

Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.

When a woman starts out in the world on a mission, secular or religious, she should leave her feminine charms at home.

It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in front ofhis door than any other man can afford.

So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.

It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.

Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the Union appears to us horrible to the last degree.

A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too, while the stars and stripes floated over it.

It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch.

Nothing in any religious teachings goes beyond Humanism, unless you add the supernatural...Make believe is the only difference between being human and being religious.

The only way to fight the darkness around us is to light a fire within us.

Winston and his sister walked for a time in silence, each in an invisible, vibrating pocket of excitement.

He longed for a world where safe places for the weak and vulnerable were common, but that was not this world. Not right now.

My greatest wish is to write in such a manner that all may think they have written it themselves.

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.

If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner (to discuss a salary) and based on what Dave Winfield got for his statistics, I'd have to say, 'George, you and I are about to become partners.'

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

Making music should not be left to the professionals.

To understand the difficulty of predicting the next 100 years, we have to appreciate the difficulty that the people of 1900 had in predicting the world of 2000.