The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

All our knowledge is symbolic.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

The world is full of contradiction.