A free life cannot acquire many possessions because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Poesy was ever thought to have some participation of divineness because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind.

They that die by famine die by inches.

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

When a man is tired of London he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford.

Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess we act and think in vain and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

But you know as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

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