Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?

If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?

A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.