“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.”
“Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.”
“Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice oneself to an idea, to a race, to God? Or does it mean that the higher the model the longer the longer the tether of our slavery?”
“If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?”
“For all our penny-wisdom, for all out soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts.”
“She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.”