Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face.But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
Suffering is the fire that purifies the soul.
Society can and does execute its own mandates, and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.