Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul.

Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.

As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.