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

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

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.

And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.

Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.

The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.