There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

I will be lord over myself.

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.