A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.

Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such actual occurrence, this preposterous misrepresentation of it would never have existed. Though the distorted or magnified image transmitted to us through the refracting medium of rumour, is utterly unlike the reality; yet in the absence of the reality there would have been no distorted or magnified image.

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.