By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

To achieve, you need thought

In order to fight any issue, it is necessary to fight for something, not merely against something.

Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.