The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding.

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.

We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.

Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.

Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility