The will to save a life is not the power to stop a death.

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.

It is impossible that all men have been doomed to suffer this awful horror!

It is impossible for us to calculate the vast amount of utterly unnecessary sorrow and terror and misery which mankind in the aggregate has suffered simply from its ignorance and superstition with regard to this one most important matter.

Il n'y a guère d'homme assez habile pour connaître tout le mal qu'il fait.

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

The evils of society cannot be remedied by acts of parliament.

It is an emotional impossibility for any man to believe in his own death.

Il n’y a guère d'homme assez habile pour connaître tout le mal qu'il fait.

In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.