She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have wings."

Peace begets prosperity; Prosperity begets pride; Pride begets prejudice; Prejudice begets war; War begets poverty.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." N.B.: This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms. - Gandhi, An Autobiography.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Either Zeus came to earth to shew his form to thee, Phidias, or thou to heaven hast gone the god to see.

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanisms of the universe.

Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to nature; they are, rather, the foremost features of man's nature. The most appropriate description of man as differentiated from nonhuman beings is: a being purposively struggling against the forces adverse to his life.

God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.