Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

To do a great right do a little wrong.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.