Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come.

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.