A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea.

There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

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

the brain works better if the hand works too.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

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

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.