» I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
» A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
» My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
» The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
» Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
» If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt; if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius.