We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy