Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

It is not the idea as such which the censor attacks, whether it be heresy or radicalism or obscenity. He attacks the circulation of the idea among the classes which in his judgment are not to be trusted with the idea.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.