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.

The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.

Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.

Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of passion? Is not that man civilized whose reason sits the crowned monarch of his brain - whose passions are his servants?