"You cannot make men good by law...." - Quote by C S Lewis

“You can't really study people; you can only get to know them.”

“Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.”

“A promise must be about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way.”

“A free citizen in a free state, it seems to me, has an inalienable right to play with whomsoever he will, so long as he does not disturb the general peace. If any other citizen, offended by the spectacle, makes a pother, then that other citizen, and not the man exercising his inalienable right, should be put down by the police.”

“Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities.”

“The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.”

“I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.”

“Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.”

“In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.”