My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.

Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.