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Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
Courageous risks are life-giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a person of some sense to know how to lie well.
How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.
Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable.
Surfing is good for the soul, worries seems to drift away as you scan the horizon for the next wave.
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle; but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
