Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.