"On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers."

"We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy."

"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world."

"When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account."

"Hurting people is my business."

"If any choose to maintain, as many do, that species were gradually brought to their maturity from humbler forms ... he is welcome to his hypothesis, but I have nothing to do with it."

"The road up and the road down is one and the same."

"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

"Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money."

"One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them."

"All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful."

"We cannot view the world through another being's eyes. Love is knowing, without a doubt, another's perception of the world and being content with having no evidence."