The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.

We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Silence is sorrow's best food.