A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.

We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!

What is possible for me is possible for you.

Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.

These were choice documents to me... They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance.

I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me. There was no getting rid of it. It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.