Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable. To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily also deprives others of the right to listen to those views.

To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation.

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.

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.

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

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.