Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

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

Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.

What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.