“Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.”

“The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

“There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behaviour yield to the energy of the individual.”

“Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no…”

“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”

“A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred — the human…”