The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed - who cannot speak for themselves.

Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!