The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.