History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.

There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.

How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.