Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances will avail.... It is a drama in which the parties have no part to act.

Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.

Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.

Time hides no treasures; we want not its then, but its now.