A Soul Occupied With Great

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.

There Have Been Few Things In My Life Which Have Had A More Genial Effect On My Mind Than The Possession Of A Piece Of Land.

Everything But Truth Becomes Loathed In A Sick-room ... Let The Nurse Avow That The Medicine Is Nauseous. Let The Physician Declare That The Treatment Will Be Painful. Let Sister, Or Brother, Or Friend, Tell Me That I Must Never Look To Be Well. When The Time Approaches That I Am To Die, Let Me Be Told That I Am To Die, And When.

Public Opinion, - A Tyrant, Sitting In The Dark, Wrapt Up In Mystification And Vague Terrors Of Obscurity; Deriving Power No One Knows From Whom ... - But Irresistible In Its Power To Quell Thought, To Repress Action, To Silence Conviction.

I Have No Sympathy For Those Who, Under Any Pressure Of Circumstances, Sacrifice Their Heart's-love For Legal Prostitution.