If there's no struggle, there's no progress.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever... I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.