Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.
Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.
A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.
So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.