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The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.

The point is that you can’t be too greedy.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?