I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.