If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

In valor there is hope.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

You can at any time decide to alter the course of your life; no one can take that away.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

It was magic, I felt the bond between us. She was a jelly to my peanuts, Mars to Venus, The Earth to my sun, moon and stars, We added up mathematically... It's like I had a bad habit, B!

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

You've had a long working life As everyone knows You can now do nothing at all And then have a doze Enjoy Your Retirement

If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.

I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.