A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.

When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'