If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.

The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.

All good things are wild and free.

When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

Let Harlequin be taken with a fit of the colic, and his trappings will have to serve that mood too.

Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.