The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?

The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.

Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.