If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

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.

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.

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.

Even small waves make it to shore. Use the potential you have through intention and action and enjoy your journey.

The hopeful lenses of our eyes are fixed on the busy hands of our dependable God... He is working hardly on our prayers... Don't be afraid!

Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one's position in relation to them

What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?

I try not to focus on the gender issue too much but I think you have to acknowledge it in order for it to go away.

First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works.

A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.

Citizen service is a repudiation of the principles upon which our country was based. We are all here for ourselves.

The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.