Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.