Wendell Phillips (November 29, 1811 – February 2, 1884) was an American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney. (wikipedia)
Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.
Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
Revolutions never go backwards.