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

Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

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

Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.