Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!

The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.

And hold up to the sun my little taper.