There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race.

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

These men are all talk; What is needed is action - action!

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.

I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.

The intent and not the deed Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly Does greatly.

Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.

New life, new hopes.

Human technology can only go as far as the limitations set by God. Daniel 12:3-4

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

I want to be romantic, and songs are a good way to do that.

We're not going to have you burdening the health system.

I try not to bring in anything I don't love looking at. It's about restaint ... There is something about an unfinished quality that leaves within you that sense of possibility.

If that Negro is faithful all his days, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get a celestial resurrection.

That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.

In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.

It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right.