At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!

The only Christian work is good work well done.

Many a criminal has finally given himself over to the authorities because the accusations of a guilty conscience were worse than prison bars.

I'm not trying to be a spokeswoman for the transgender community; I just want to be looked at as a living, breathing, happy human being.

When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.

I'm with the spirit of Earth-Day-yet-to-come. Nobody can really predict the future, all you can do is look at trends, and that could change at any moment.

I'll have my double chins in privacy.

In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.

A free government is of all others the most energetic.

The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.