And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

To know is not less than to feel.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.

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.

Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.