Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

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

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society.

The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.

Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from the imbecilities of their husbands.

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.