Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think.

The law of grab is the primal law of infancy.

There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger than them all.

Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.

We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?

if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.

Certain things need not be said, and there’s nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what’s about to happen.

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.

A young Brit girl with no theatre experience decided to take on an iconic American role on Broadway. Maybe I should have thought that through?

I feel like all the artists that I really love, they've had a strong contingent of people who really hate their work as well.

The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.

Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.

A man lets you know who he is by how he treats others.

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?