In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.

Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go

'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.