Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.