I tell you, " said Augustine, "if there is anything that revealed with the strength of a divine law in our times, it is that the masses are to rise, and the under class becomes the upper one.

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

Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

In the midst of life we are in death, '" said Miss Ophelia.

...the heart has no tears to give, --it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me.

Liberty! -- Electric word!

Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.

If you want to succeed in life you have to blaze your own paths

[On David Hume]Although he never admitted to being an atheist as such, he was clearly and unquestionably the most vividly elegant skeptic of them all.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

I may like easy choices, but I appreciate the difficult ones more.

If only tears could speak, they would tell the agony of the eyes.

There hasn't been one highlight that stands out... but touring and performing has been great.

Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the reader.

It's not easy to have the job of president. It's not easy to run for it. And it's not a job for the feint of heart.

Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.