With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
“Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion”
“Expect poison from the standing water."
“If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.”
“For every thing that lives is Holy.”
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
“Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.”
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
“My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.”
“A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.”
Energy is eternal delight.
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Produce great men, the rest follows.
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent law of laws.
There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
I accept reality and dare not question it.
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.