War? War is an organized bore.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age.

The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.