Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.