“Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.”

“Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.”

“Not what we give,But what we share,For the giftwithout the giverIs bare.”

“A wise man travels to discover himself.”

“The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.”

“No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.”

“He chooses his language for its rich canorousness rather than for intensity of meaning.”