So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.

It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch.

I cannot tell what I am as much afraid of, as a woman who invariably washes on Monday. It is a kind of key to character; and if her mouth is not puckered and her brow wrinkled, they will be, unless she repents.

It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.

I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded. It was long after that I learned that a vast majority of all benevolent institutions are gotten up to gratify the aesthetic tastes of the public; exhibit the wealth and generosity of the founders, and furnish places for officers. The beneficiaries of the institutions are simply an apology for their existence, and having furnished that apology, the less said about them the better.

Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.

Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.