Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.