Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.

Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

Revolutions are not made, they come.

Every government is always growing corrupt.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.