A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.
I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.
The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.
The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body.
Faith never makes a confession.
Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.