Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

Never argue with stupid people$$$ they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Courage is resistance to fear$$$ mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back$$$ they are a heavy weight.

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness$$$ possibility$$$ complexity$$$ and difficulty.