Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.