It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.

One beautiful heart is better than a thousand beautiful faces.

Love is reflected in love.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.

When you seek love with all your heart you shall find its echo in the universe.

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country.

We have more machinery of government that is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

My own art is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside all rules and demands of society.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one is useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.