Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
Revolutions are not made, they come.
There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.
Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled; and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.