"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive."

"Delay is preferable to error."

"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object."

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."

"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far."

"If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it."

"We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?"

"Intellectual passion dries out sensuality."

"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action."

"She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell."

"The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow."

"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."