All truths are bloody truths to me.

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?

My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.

People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.

Every profound spirit needs a mask.

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

This verse gets me through each day, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger! I am not afraid of anything because the lord is my shepherd!