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

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

Kind words cost no more than unkind ones . . . and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness.

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