The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming.

Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.

Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.

As a Senator I am opposed to duelling. As Ben. Wade, I recognize the code.

The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

People have within their own hands the tools to fashion their own destiny.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it

You don't know the plant until you've killed it. Then you've learned something.

Love has more depth as you get older.

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like schoolboys, at the expected warning, To joy and play.

What if I left my memory in the future and I have to catch up to it?