The Last Thing It [government] Ought To

Moral Excellence Has No Regard To Classes And Professions.

The Imagination, Once Awakened, Must And Will Work, And Ought To Work

If I Believed That The Choice Lay Between A Sacrifice Of The Completest Order Of Biography And That Of The Inviolability Of Private Epistolary Correspondence, I Could Not Hesitate For A Moment. I Would Keep The Old And Precious Privacy,-the Inestimable Right Of Every One Who Has A Friend And Can Write To Him, - I Would Keep Our Written Confidence From Being Made Biographical Material, As Anxiously As I Would Keep Our Spoken Conversation From Being Noted Down For The Good Of Society.

I Think That Few People Are Aware How Early It Is Right To Respect The Modesty Of An Infant.

My Business In Life Has Been To Think And Learn, And To Speak Out With Absolute Freedom What I Have Thought And Learned. The Freedom Is Itself A Positive And Never-failing Enjoyment To Me, After The Bondage Of My Early Life.