The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.