I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.