It is not a sign of communal well-being when men turn to their government to execute all their business for them, but rather a sign of decay, as in the United States today. The state, indeed, is but one of the devices that a really healthy community sets up to manage its affairs.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

Living with a dog is easy- like living with an idealist.

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any sympathy for them or because we crave their blessings, but simply because we don't want them to be falling ill of smallpox

The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate.

There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.