A ship is a beauty and a mystery wherever we see it.

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.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

from under the ground, from under the waters, they clutch at us, they clutch at us, we won’t let go.

What you think of yourself is what you will become.

Fruition-Think of writing as a harvest.You till the ground.Plant.Water.Wait.Apple trees take years to bear fruit.Harvest.Clean.Process.Then you have apple pie.

Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.

Music does not live until it's interpreted - with all of its flaws, mannerisms, etc. It needs to be incarnated to be something.

The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.

Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.

Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.