Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

We live ruins amid ruins.

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.