I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

The question of how things will settle down is the only important question.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

If you want to be happy, be happy.

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.