We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

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

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

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