Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.