I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.
The most dangerous thing is illusion.
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.
The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution, which work with more energy than we believe, whilst we depend on artificial restraints.
Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?