“To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.”

My vocation to preach on paper.

By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?

It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.

Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.

A woman’s health is her capital.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.

The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.

All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

It felt almost rude to ignore toe pretty white bed, but we just weren’t going to make it that far.

We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

Allow yourself to fill with grace, for you have come so far.

We’re not far from home.

Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.