Let us try what love will do.
Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the law rules, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
We meet on the broad pathway of good faith and good will; no advantage shall be taken on either side, but all shall be openness and love. I will not call you children, — for parents sometimes chide their children too severely; nor brothers only, — for brothers differ. The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. We are the same as if one man’s body were to be divided into two parts, we are all one flesh and blood.
There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
If there be three distinct and separate Persons, then three distinct and separate Substances. . . . And since the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Spirit is God . . . then unless the Father, Son and Spirit are three distinct Nothings, they must be three distinct Substances, and consequently three distinct Gods.
The truest end of life is to know that life never ends.
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father’s care.
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
The drama’s laws, the drama’s patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.
Haven’t you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.
Adam was but human-this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
Every artist was first an amateur.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.
Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
