Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.
A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.