Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed

We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

Nothing is certain by uncertainty.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.