Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.

All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike.

The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.