War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her.

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.

In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.