“The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.”

“Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.”

“Military life in general depraves men. It places them in conditions of complete idleness, that is, absence of all rational and useful work; frees them from their common human duties, which it replaces by merely conventional duties to the honor of the regiment, the uniform, the flag; and while giving them on the one hand absolute power over other men, also puts them into conditions of servile obedience to those of higher ranks than themselves.”

“Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.”

“Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.”

“The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.”