A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.
The ancestor of every action is a thought… Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.