For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.

Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

Surprise is the secret of joy.

They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.