"Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who reject you, and insult you, and smite you?"

"I make my way to the hospital, and stay there for hours, among the wounded, to give them what comfort I can, and to read to them, and to write letters for them."

"I have no doubt that the world is a stage, and I am one of the actors."

"I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content."

"I am a Democrat, but I don't believe in the Democratic party."