Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

To be awake is to be alive.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.