If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.