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

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

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

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.