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 quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.

A little thought is sexton to all the world.

A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.