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

To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed.

A state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the genuine principles and grounds of their convictions within their own breasts, and attempt, in what they address to the public, to fit as much as they can of their own conclusions to premises which they have internally renounced, cannot send forth the open, fearless characters, and logical, consistent intellects who once adorned the thinking world.

The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

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