Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.

To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.

The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state....The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and make fouler still with its slime?