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

To say that secular means irreligious implies that all the arts and sciences are irreligious, and is very like saying that all professions except that of the law are illegal.

Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.

In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises.

My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?