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

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.

If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

Any new formula which suddenly emerges in our consciousness has its roots in long trains of thought; it is virtually old when it first makes its appearance among the recognized growths of our intellect.