Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.

A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.

Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.