It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.

There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together.

As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.

Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man - the man of stainless integrity, of will and intellectual force.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty.

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint.

What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.

A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.

When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence.

A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.

There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I enjoyed working as a teacher, journalist and author. I have loved a wonderful man for over 33 years, and I believe he loves me, too.

Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.

We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us.

I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.

Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

The less routine the more life.

Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.

In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning 'bit' always switched on.