She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

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.

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.

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

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