We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.

It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

No sensible person ever made an apology.

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.