“most people are perfectly afraid of silence”

“somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near”

“since the thing perhaps isto eat flowers and not to be afraid”

“So truly perfectly the skiesby merciful love whispered were,completes its brightness with your eyesany illimitable star.”

“The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion”

“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...”

“guilt is the cause of more maraudersthan history's most obscene disauders”