Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
We know what we are, but not what we may be.
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think of yourself.
I am not merry; but I do beguile The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually. Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come.
All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.
He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.