A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.

I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more.

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.

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

When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Writing does for me what giving milk does for a cow.