One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.