The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.
Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.
The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.
The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.
Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.
I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in the universe, under the best teachers, learning the best things, in the best possible manner. O death! We thank thee for the light that thou wilt shed upon our ignorance.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
I who have set my heart on watching over the soul, in union with Good Thought, and as knowing the rewards of Mazda Ahura for our works, will, while I have power and strength, teach men to seek after Right. I have become an alien in a foreign land.
You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.
If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They have what I would call a state capitalism.
The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.