"To give money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in everyman's power nor an easy matter."

"The basis of a democratic state is liberty."

"To love someone is to identify with them."

"The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later."

"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."

"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."

"Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority."

"Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him."

"Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life."

"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."

"There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble."

"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent."