The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.