Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

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.

Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.

No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.