What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.

I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

What doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger

There is always some madness in love.

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.