The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few; Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

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

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

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.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face.