The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.
Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.
There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory
My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.
Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.