Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.

For the profit of travel: in the first place, you get rid of a few prejudices.... The prejudiced against color finds several hundred millions of people of all shades of color, and all degrees of intellect, rank, and social worth, generals, judges, priests, and kings, and learns to give up his foolish prejudice.

Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.

When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

Is it possible, after all, that spite of bricks and shaven faces, this world we live in is brimmed with wonders, and I and all mankind, beneath our garbs of common-placeness, conceal enigmas that the stars themselves, and perhaps the highest seraphim can not resolve?