The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.

Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.