Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.

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.

I don’t do math.

A certain Samaritan... bound up his wounds pouring in oil and wine.

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I really learned it all from mothers.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions.

Lust is the sin that gets me excited. Luckily, because I'm married, I also get really good jewelry out of it.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

God is the ultimate philosophical questioner, the one who asks the logically paradoxical ultimate philosophical question about the nature of his own existence.

Ive always been drawn to the ocean.