As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.
“Some people when they get older are so firm in their beliefs that you'll never move them.”
“It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.”