The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

It takes a lot of courage to push through hard times. Never give up. Good things are coming your way.

If a warden sees cigarette litter being thrown from a car, they will take the number and trace the owner to send them a fine.

I go home to London in between jobs, and in London, my life has nothing to do with the business. It's a family life, hanging with friends.

I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.

One mouth doth nothing without another.

Sometimes we were really surprised. There were major artists that would come by because they wanted to.

Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.

But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

Writing from a character is really fun - sometimes you can be more honest through somebody else's perspective.