Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

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.

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.

It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.