Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.