“Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last
“The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed; the thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, whose charms were broken if revealed
“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter, often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter, in the eye
“It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it
“Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter
“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
“The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.
“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation
“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free