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

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.

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.

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

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.

It’s one thing to be an undead fiend of darkness, but it takes an immense amount of work to look cool while doing it.

They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages! I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five languages!

The more we walk the path first while becoming last and least in our organizations, the more we become like the Alpha and Omega whom we long to serve.

Black tenants smell and attract vermin.

You are the woman of my heart. The one I have been awaiting the whole of my life, though I didn't know it until I spied you. there isn't one thing that makes you special to me, but all things.

It is people like me who are isolated.

Donald Trump is the most dangerous person to run for president in the modern history of America.

Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.

When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.