"A tear dries quickly when it is..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds.”

“Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.”

“Man is his own worst enemy.[Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]”

“The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together and to rest in her bosom.”

“I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.”

“When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'”

“Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its sweet oblivious antidote, cleanse the full bosom of all perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart.”

“There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.”

“Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.”