Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

God made me and broke the mold.

Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.

At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.