The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much.

We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.

My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine.

Slavery is dead, but the spirit which animated it still lives.

I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the women work most for it.

If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.

I belong to this race, and when it is down I belong to a down race; when it is up I belong to a risen race.

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?

I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters.

You are the gatekeeper of your child’s mental diet.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain therefore to treat them as if they were equal.

We may as well not pray at all as offer our prayers in a lifeless manner.

Some people think that it [Brexit] is the end of the world. It's not. On the contrary, it's a massive opportunity for this country.

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

Lord, this humble house we'd keep Sweet with play and calm with sleep. Help us so that we may give Beauty to the lives we live. Let Thy love and let Thy grace Shine upon our dwelling place.

Forgiveness changes the way we remember.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

I had a wonderful holiday, a wonderful New Year and it was very special. That's all you're getting out of me.

Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished by interior suffering.