"There are certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. Among these are many, I s…"

"Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been …"

"Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public re…"

"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inqu…"

"Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones."

"It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not."

"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."

"And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-la…"

"Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her…"

"Americans have always been especially prone to regard all things as resulting from the free choice of a free will. Pr…"