Shepherds know many mysterious languages; they speak the language of sheep and dogs, language of stars and skies, flowers and herbs.
I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.
I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.
Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.
No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.
I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however dignified by the name of the Goddess of Liberty, whose footstool is the crushed necks of the groaning millions, and who rejoices in the resoundings of the tyrant's lash, and the cries of his tortured victims.
I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.
I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary.
Grace can neither be bought, earned, or won by the creature. If it could be, it would cease to be grace.
If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year. . . . Today should always be our most wonderful day.
Precious beyond price are good resolutions. Valuable beyond price are good feelings.