Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.