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Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without planting up the ground. They want rain without thunder or lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. The struggle may not be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

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I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

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A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure

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I love and I hate. How can this be, you ask in vain. I know not, but I feel it to be so and am wracked with pain.

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You are only as old as the woman you feel.

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