Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.

Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. Oneman owns his clothes, and another owns a country.

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.