Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

Let us not go over the old ground but rather prepare for what is to come.

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.