Zeal will do more than knowledge.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.

He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?