The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail...
Teach me to live$$$ that I may dread<br>The grave as little as my bed.<br>Teach me to die.
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness$$$
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed$$$ nothing is too strange to have happened.
And at home by the fire$$$ whenever you look up there I shall be and whenever I look up$$$ there will be you.
He was there beside her; yet she was far away from him$$$ alone with her outraged love and her ruined life.
For in politics$$$ as in religion$$$ it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
California is a garden of Eden$$$ a paradise to live in or see. But believe it or not$$$ you won't find it so hot$$$ if you ain't got the do re mi.