I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.

The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.