I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are.