Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but also to commence new practices, and set the example of more enlightened conduct, and better taste and sense in human life.

Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint.

Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.