"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular" — Adlai Ewing Stevenson

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body

Source: The Tatler, no. 147 (1710)

Optimism: The doctrine or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of man

Source: The Human Seasons (1818)

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage

Source: Cato, act 2 (1713)

Adlai Ewing Stevenson Quote

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