Nevertheless, likin' is a tender plant, and never thrives long when watered with tears. Let the 'arth around your married happiness be moistened by the dews of kindness.

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.

It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!

You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!

Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?

Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l’arn its lessons.

...it should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.

Principles become modified in practise by facts.

These families you know are our upper crust not upper ten thousand.

Be careful with those promises who whisper while wooing and loving someone. There are those that take them to heart, and some who take them to soul.

He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)

When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.

Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?

I grew up in a time where anything was possible.

Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.

I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.

If you're going to have someone win because of their story, go write a screenplay about your life.

He's a wealthy man, a very wealthy man. If you have a half a million-dollar purchase from Tiffany's, you're not a middle-class American.

A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should have the rights of persons.