No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.

Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame.