Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.

Change is not progress.

The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.

Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gentler, more dignified, and more agreeable undertakings.

I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest minority, however small, wants to read them. The remedy of the majority is not prohibition, but avoidance.

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.