How any human being ever has had the impudence to speak against the right to speak, is beyond the power of my imagination. Here is a man who speaks-who exercises a right that he, by his speech, denies. Can liberty go further than that? Is there any toleration possible beyond the liberty to speak against liberty-the real believer in free speech allowing others to speak against the right to speak?

A good deed is the best prayer.

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.

Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.

There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.

Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.