“To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.”

“I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect.”

“I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility — I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.”

“If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.”

“Expressing oneself is like a drug. I’m so addicted to it.”

“The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.”

“In fact, the spiritual detriment we unconsciously suffer, in every province of our affairs, from this our prostrate respect to power of speech is incalculable.”

“[A]ll things as subsist from nature appear to contain in themselves a principle of motion and permanency; some according to place, others according to increase and diminuation; and others according to change in quality.”

“Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.”

“The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.”