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

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age.

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.