If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.