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"it is well worth a penny" William Morris' brief note on the first issue of the anarchist paper Freedom. Commonweal 2.37 (25 September, 1886)

"O me! O me! How I love the earth, and the seasons, and weather, and all things that deal with it, and all that grows out of it, - as this [some lichen] has done!" Ellen, one of the few people with any depth in News from Nowhere, on loving nature. Commonweal 6.246 (27 Sept, 1890)

"And it must be understood that it is only by the due working out of this class-war to its end, the abolition of classes, that Socialism can come about." William Morris on the "fact of the class-war". Commonweal 5.194 (28 Sept, 1889)

"Therefore it is that the middle-class semi-Socialists, driving by class instinct, preach revolution without the class struggle; which is an absurdity and an impossibility." William Morris on the Fabians and others like them. Commonweal 5.194 (28 Sept, 1889)

Morris frequently targeted these "soft Socialists, who so long as they are allowed to steal the goose will not object to give the giblets to the poor". Commonweal 5.194 (28 Sept, 1889)

"Yes, surely! and if others can see it as I have seen it, then it may be called a vision rather than a dream." The last installment of William Morris's News from Nowhere, published #OTD in 1890. Commonweal 6.247 (4 October, 1890)

Also in this edition of Commonweal was someone (N.) wishing John Morley had had his head smashed so he could feel firsthand the treatment often dealt out by "our admirable police".

Also in this edition was an optimistic Notice, expecting an "immense demand" for the next issue with a printing of La Carmagnole. Earlier in the year Morris had stopped financing losses on the paper due to its increasingly violent tone. It would soon be financially unsustainable.

The Vale of Tears. By Heinrich Heine. Translated by Sir Theodore Martin. Commonweal 4.145 (20 October, 1888)

Bound by Thomas Cobden-Sanderson after the original binding started to fray. The English translation was a few years away, and not having German, Morris first read Capital in French