Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.

Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

Associations are both subtle and powerful.

Poverty is not natural; it is man-made

Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano.

When you play music, you don't need a language. Music is a language.

He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.