But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.

The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.

The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars.

There is only one you on the globe today. You have been built to inspire and designed to dazzle. Live your uniqueness!

We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.

For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.

Who needs an umbrella in the rain?" she said, and stepped into the car.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.

The world is full of monsters with friendly faces.

There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

Anything would deserve a sequel if the right elements are there.