An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think

Welcome Beauty, banish fear.

There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.

Had any parent ever succeeded in hiding marital unhappiness from their child?

What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.

Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king

Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.