Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.