It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.

A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a veil of pleached and intertwining branches, then the loftiness of the forest, the seclusion of the spot and your marvel at the thick unbroken shade in the midst of the open spaces, will prove to you the presence of deity.