It gets laughed at because it is a small town, I know, but nevertheless it is a place where great men may be born any day, for fair winds and foul blow right on over it without distinction.

Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.

In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify.

As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up.

The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.