If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it.

We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we?

And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot resist it. It whispers to us that there are great things on this earth of ours, and that we can know them if we try, and that we must know them. We ask, why must we know, but it has no answer to give us. We must know that we may know.

Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.