God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.

[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . .

For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.

A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.

Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.

One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.