We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.

If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.