We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.

We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the trumpet of liberty blow over the land of the living.