Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.

Who is old enough to have learned from experience?

Of what use were it, pray, to get a little wood to burn, to warm your body this cold weather, if there were not a divine fire kindled at the same time to warm your spirit?

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

In my walks I would fain return to my senses.