People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.

That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.

The good is the greatest rival of the best.

I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.

Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.

thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.