Soul, what have I to do with you?

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

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

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.

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.

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

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!