“The devil is compromise.”

What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.

The strong must learn to be lonely.

There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.

The majority never has right on its side.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.

What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

Compromise has a negative connotation.

Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings,

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

The real story is that I am very free, that I’ve managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

For us, compromise never means surrender, but a step forward and some rest. That is all and nothing else.

If you’re my woman, you’re somebody I give emotions to that I don’t give to nobody else. You’re my safe space. I don’t want my safe space to be compromised.

Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.