When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap

If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it