Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd-- To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.

I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.

Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.

Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one.

I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.