“A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.”

“A person who is never duped cannot be a friend.”

“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.”

“A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.”

“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”

“You cannot thrash the person who makes you coffee. It's a rule somewhere.”

“Everyone performs bad actions… A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.”

“The objection I have to the whipping-post is that it is a punishment which cannot be inflicted by a gentleman. The person who administers the punishment must, of necessity, be fully as degraded as the person who receives it.”

“The ideal person cannot be thought of as the whole person developed from the possibilities of the present-day person, but as the "new man" who, to become such, has to pass through the critique and negation of the present-day person.”

“How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.”