Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint.

[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!

He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.

I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human beings

The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.