We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.