Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

I do not know what I think until I write it.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.