Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

The true ship is the ship builder.

I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

Accept your genius and say what you think.