Something deathless and dangerous in the world sweeps past you...It is something fearful and ominous, something turbulent and to be dreaded, which distends the drama to include the life of nations as well as of men. It is an ageless warning.

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

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

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

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.

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