What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Our power is in our ability to decide.