Beware of what you do best; its bound to be a trap.

Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

Cognition reigns but does not rule.

[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.