A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.

Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.