True invective requires great imagination.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.

A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

Criticism is not construction, it is observation.