"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the b…"

"I do not wish to be regarded as a member of any society which I have not joined."

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

"I perceive that, when an acorn and a chestnut fall side by side, the one does not remain long in the mould of the other, but makes its own bed, and pushes itself away the shortest and surest way, by i…"

"I love my friends, but I do not want to absorb them."