"The absence of love is the most abject pain."

"Man's drive for self expression, which over centuries built his monuments, does not stay within set bounds; the creations, which yesterday were the detested and obscene, become the classics of today."

"The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment."

"He who denies the existence of a truth because it sounds negative creates a vacuum that draws the darkness unto him."

"Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!"

"The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether."

"Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience."

"A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death."

"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

"I will make a Star-chamber matter of it."

"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."

"It is really asking too much of a woman to expect her to bring up her husband and her children too."