It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
-- Sir Edmund Hillary
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
Voltaire
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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
Max Eastman
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So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.
Henry Giles
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