The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.