While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.

On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would haveheld up his head in their company.

As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.

What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.

All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation of this. Theyprefer to be misunderstood rather than to come short of its exuberance.

Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.