“Learn ever to separate the king and the principle of royalty. The king is but man; royalty is the spirit of God.”
“You are young, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances.”
“The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.”
“Nothing succeeds like success.”
“Slavery is not abolished until the Black man has the ballot.”
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.”
“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”
“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
“A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.”
“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.”
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars; the deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
“To live without hope is to cease to live.”
“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
“The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.”
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”