Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

She who means no mischief does it all.

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.

I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.

The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

One life is worth no more or less than any other

You can't deny your limitations.

I don't just talk about change. I actually have a plan to execute change and make it happen.

The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

They knew bullshit, and they knew about the ruling class; dying for a ruling class cause was almost always bullshit.