“Na he that ay has levyt fre
May nocht knaw weill the propyrte
The angyr na the wrechyt dome
That is couplyt to foule thyrldome,
Bot gyff he had assayit it.
Than all perquer he suld it wyt,
And suld think fredome mar to prys
Than all the gold in warld that is.”

Source: Social Problems (1883), Ch. 21 : Conclusion
Context: Many there are, too depressed, too embruted with hard toil and the struggle for animal existence, to think for themselves. Therefore the obligation devolves with all the more force on those who can. If thinking men are few, they are for that reason all the more powerful. Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. That for every idle word men may speak they shall give an account at the day of judgment, seems a hard saying. But what more clear than that the theory of the persistence of force, which teaches us that every movement continues to act and react, must apply as well to the universe of mind as to that of matter? Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be they few or many. How far that influence, thus perpetuated, may extend, it is not given to him here to see. But it may be that the Lord of the Vineyard will know.

BBC Radio Debate on the Existence of God, Russell vs. Copleston (1948)
1940s

Section III.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part VI

St. 2
1840s, Poems (1847), The Problem http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/problem.htm

The Goose with the Golden Eggs.

General Prologue, l. 295-300
The Canterbury Tales

Suffering and Greatness of Richard Wagner (1933)

A Persian Song of Hafiz, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Vol. I : Preface (1772)
Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion (1772–1774)