I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.

The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.

Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.

I am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of some fear, some repression. I do not believe that people would be villains, thieves, murderers and sexual criminals if they were freed from legal restraint.