Life is already too short to waste on speed.

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.

All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.

I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.

Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.