Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts.

Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.