Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and labors of men. Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.

Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.