When the curtain falls no one is ready

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

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.

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

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.

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.