It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and that the ballot in their hands is less dangerous to society than a sense of wrong is in their heads.

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.