I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For in truth, we who are creatures of impulse, are creatures of despair.

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.

I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me.

The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.