Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

It really is considered one of the blessings of previous mates which you could manage being silly with them.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?

The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.