Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then he is instructed in what is set above him. He learns that his being is without bound; that to the good, to the perfect, he is born, low as he now lies in evil and weakness.

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

There is properly no history, only biography.