Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.

Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

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