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.

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.