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.

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.

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

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

Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.