Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.

To the innocent there are neither cherubim nor angels.

What shall we think of a government to which all the truly brave and just men in the land are enemies, standing between it and those whom it oppresses? A government that pretends to be Christian and crucifies a million Christs every day!

I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful to find out and preserve his own way.

It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the deliberate reader. To the practical they will be common sense, and to the wise wisdom; as either the traveler may wet his lips, or an army may fill its water-casks at a full stream.

If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.