I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.

A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.

Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?

All knowledge pursued merely for the enrichment of personal learning and the accumulation of personal treasure leads you away from the path

First there wasn't, then there was. Before God no one was.

If you step on a serpent, it will reply you with its fangs.

Trials are part of the adventure to greatness.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.

A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

Even Jesus Christ cannot conduct a free and fair election in Nigeria.

Karachi has had an overdose of history, too much has happened.