I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

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

A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.