I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

Calling bullshit on something thats exactly what you want to hear is certainly among life's bigger challenges

Within the madness of my subliminal mind often brilliant thoughts are aligned.

The mind is powerful, and you have more control than you think.

The living and dead were thrown together, and the dead looked away first.-Description of Doomsday

We do not write as we want but as we can.

No one told me that you could be alive and be happy. No one told me, and if someone had I wouldn't have believed them. I thought that you had to die - physically die - to escape.

The greatest safety lies in putting all your eggs in one basket and watching the basket.

Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.

Carry an oar when you drive. Three times I've ended up in water.

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.