The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.

I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!

All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it.

To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.

The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which we implore you to deliver us, it is you who has set them for us; and the Satan which surrounds us, this Satan, it is you.

The elements of justice are identical with those of algebra.

I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will. Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.