An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.