To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.
If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.