No man can feel the iron which enters another man's soul.

We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.

My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine.

Slavery is dead, but the spirit which animated it still lives.

The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much.

I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the women work most for it.

If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.

I belong to this race, and when it is down I belong to a down race; when it is up I belong to a risen race.

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

I just love the whole idea of conversational prints.

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

But now we got weapons Of the chemical dust If fire them we're forced to Then fire them we must One push of the button And a shot the world wide And you never ask questions When God's on your side

Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.

We can create a more beautiful nature by not touching it and by leaving it alone!

To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process

If you are not being attacked by materialist, you must be doing something wrong