Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.

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

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

In the midst of life we are in death, '" said Miss Ophelia.

...the heart has no tears to give, --it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me.

Liberty! -- Electric word!

Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.

«Couldn't never be nothin' but a nig*er, if I was ever so good, » said Topsy. «If I could be skinned, and come white, I'd try then.»

This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.

Instinct is a powerful form of natural energy perhaps comparable in humans to electricity or even atomic energy in the mechanical world.

Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that.

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.

I have lived too long in foreign parts

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own.

Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts.

By the end of Fashion Week my apartment is covered with makeup and clothes and shoes. Everything you can think of.

You have everything to gain and nothing to lose by trying.