Liberty! -- Electric word!

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.

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

«Couldn't never be nothin' but a nig*er, if I was ever so good, » said Topsy. «If I could be skinned, and come white, I'd try then.»

Never compare your love story to those you watch in movies. They're written by scriptwriters, yours is written by God.

If you don't accept failure as a possibility you don't set high goals you don't branch out you don't try - you don't take the risk.

Men know life too early women know life too late.

I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.

Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

Great vision communication usually means heartfelt messages are coming from real human beings.

excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous

Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it

The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.