The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

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

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.

I think I stand where that man stands.

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.