Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.
I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked.
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.
The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.