Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when its chief director is only instructed in the invention of crimes, or the stupid routine of childish ceremonies?

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!

Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.

I think that when you're open, you're at your most powerful.

The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.

We have found that it is easier for men to die together on the field of battle than it is for them to live together at home in peace.

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

I grew up listening to Tupac, Biggie and other hip hop artists in the 90s. To this day, their music is still some of my favorite.

Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.

Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.

The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering.

Thou unfit for any place but hell.

...lest too light winning make the prize light.