For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself

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.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country [Mexico] is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army.

My profession is to always find God in nature.