The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

The civilization of any country may always be measured by the degree of equality between men and women; and society will never come truly into order until there is perfect equality and copartnership between them in every department of human life.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot-and their tyrants have been their historians!

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.