The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.

Dissent without action is consent.

I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough.

Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that point. The murderer always knows that he is justly punished; but when a government takes the life of a man without the consent of his conscience, it is an audacious government, and is taking a step towards its own dissolution.

if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?