A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.

it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

Truth is its own defense.

Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone.

People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.

A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.