In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.