There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.

The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.