Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you would willingly believe.

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.

Don't call yourself discouraged anymoreit's no longer your name.

Who're them?" says he to the curate."Them are the fallen angels, " says the c

We stand the risk of regression, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.

When I'm in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don't really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.

It's important to be fit, but you shouldn't get too skinny. You need to have curves.

One cannot always summarize massive issues by looking at the life of one person or one family, or even one community.

There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.

Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?