The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.

I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.