The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

We are so sluggish in our mentality that we think the world's problems are not our business, that they have to be resolved by the United Nations or by substituting new leaders for the old.

It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of you guys is in favor of slavery, right?

I believe you got my property?

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.

No committee could ever come up with anything as revolutionary as a camel - anything as practical and as perfectly designed to perform effectively under such difficult conditions.

Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection.

People don't have to believe in you for you to succeed. Just work hard, when you succeed, they will believe.

It's hard to have any moral authority over a group of drunken college students when you have never had a beer and never been laid.