Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.