It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

In the United States, as elsewhere, there are, and have always been, two parties in politics ... It is remarkable how nearly their positive statements of political doctrine agree, while they differ in almost every possible application of their common principles.