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

Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

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

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

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

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