"For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and e…"

"No man…can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself."

"Who can say that he who is not free is a man?"

"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."

"The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread."