“Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools”

“A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing”

“Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever”

“Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear”

“Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country”

“I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman, they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence”