In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

Right reason is stronger than force.

Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties, and real ones cannot be evaded by political parties. The real political issues of the day declare themselves, and come out of the depths of that deep which we call public opinion.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

Tortured for the Republic.

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.