One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. He who obeys, does not listen to himself!

I cannot forgive myself for my mistakes. Instead of living in the world where God created men to be, I shall live, hemmed in by fire and brimstone, I think it's hell for me! I fear the very bravest of attire would be unlikely to revive my fire. I drag my life round like an endless train.