We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death. – John Donne
No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face. – John Donne
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. – John Donne
SIR, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,
For thus, friends absent speak. – John Donne
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner. – James Fenimore Cooper