A piece of cloth that is called "linen" has more validity than calling you and me "black" or "negro. " "Cotton" has more validity as cotton than yours and my being "black. "
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.
One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.