“You, mad to expect repentance,Tear your robe all you want;I will never repent!”

I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.

Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel’s milk!

A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.

An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.

It’s been a journey, the NBA. It’s taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.

Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.

How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?

There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.