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The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

Victory belong to the most persevering.

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

You’ve got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don’t want.