The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

Hearts are stronger than swords.

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

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.

The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.