Nothing is stronger than gentleness.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her