The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

Beware of what you want-for you will get it.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

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.

As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.