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.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed! ... We pay the first cost on all human life.

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.