“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”
“The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.”
“Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.”
“Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.”
“When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!”
“Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.”
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
“The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.”
“Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.”
“Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.”
“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
“Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.”
“When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.”
“Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?”
“I must create a system or be enslaved by another man s; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
“For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.”
“I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!”
“Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.”
“The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.”
“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”
“I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.”
“''I have no name:'' I am but two days old. ''What shall I call thee?'' I happy am, ''Joy is my name.'' sweet joy befall thee!”
“He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.”
“Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.”
“My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud.”
“When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.”
“Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.”
“All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.”
“You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.”
“Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.”