Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.