Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.

Home is where the books are

One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.