Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.