It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.

Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields - discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West - superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.

Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

The devil is compromise.

Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.