"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."

"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

"Character is much easier kept than recovered."

"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice."

"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only that gives everything its value."

"As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs."

"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds."

"He conquered with his weapons, but was conquered by his vices."

"But I am a dreamer So you sent me away. Sometimes we dreamers Just get in the way."

"A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child."

"...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall."