“Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks
“There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press
“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
“People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
“There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
“What kind of household do kids grow up in that they think they can tie a doll in a noose and it would not affect people? If there were more education about slavery and lynching, people wouldn't do this
“One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit
“The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them
“Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. . . . What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them
“Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass
“It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution