Truth is its own defense.

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.

it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.

It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to see him carried away from her, to make food for guns?

... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!