"Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!"

"I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing."

"I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward."

"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

"I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword."

"No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors."

"Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places."

"I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it?"

"The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself."