You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along.

Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!

However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.

The free man is a warrior.

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.