I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.

It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.

The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.

Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein.