I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground of other reading and hearing-that in large sense, one would say there is no pure originality. All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.