Liberty

Oct 26, 1853

            What other liberty is there worth having, if we have not freedom and peace in our minds, -- if our inmost and most private man is but a sour and turbid pool?  Often we are so jarred by chagrins [“a keen feeling of mental unease”] in dealing with the world, that we cannot reflect.

            Ah! the world is too much with us, and our whole soul is stained by what it works in, like the dyer’s hand.