In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them.

Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.

Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.