For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.
Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.
That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.