I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond.

Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.

Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.

All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, east a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.