A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

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.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?

The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.