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.

War? War is an organized bore.

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

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.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.