Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity..

One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book..

I belong to this race, and when it is down I belong to a down race; when it is up I belong to a risen race..

I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but be….

But two things are wanting in American civilization - a keener and deeper, broader and tenderer sense of justice - a sense of humanity, which shall c….

I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him agesof education, domin….

Slavery is dead, but the spirit which animated it still lives..

It is said that the Negro is ignorant. But why is he ignorant? It comes with ill grace from a man who has put out my eyes to makea parade of my blind….

Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?.

A government which can protect and defend its citizens from wrong and outrage and does not is vicious. A government which would do it and cannot is w….

No man can feel the iron which enters another man's soul..

We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving….

A room to myself is a luxury that I do not always enjoy..

The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much..

My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine..

So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can not move ahead without woman's sharing….

True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warm….

If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day..

Amid ancient lore the Word of God stands unique and pre-eminent. Wonderful in its construction, admirable in its adaptation, it contains truths that ….

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is….

a towering intellect, grand in its achievements, and glorious in its possibilities, may, with the moral and spiritual faculties held in abeyance, be ….