What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.