What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.