The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

Weak hand needs strong hand till it becomes a strong hand

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But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.

What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.

Even if I wanted to run for Ethiopia, I wouldn't expect the government or federation to choose me to do that.

It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.

I think that all my books are political, I think that I have a political body of work. I am essentially a political woman, but above all I am a poet. I am a poetess.

a good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children.

You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.

When once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right.