It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
I am my nearest neighbour.
All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.