"License they mean when they cry, Liberty! For who loves that, must first be wise and good."

"For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are."

"Who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?"

"I am not about to write a romance, but a serious history."

"Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renown'd than war."