Day-thoughts Feed Nightly Dreams; And Sorrow Tracketh

I Would Not Exchange My Freedom From Old Superstition, If I Were To Be Burned At The Stake Next Month, For All The Peace And Quiet Of Orthodoxy, If I Must Take The Orthodoxy With Peace And Quiet.

Religion Is A Temper, Not A Pursuit. It Is The Moral Atmosphere In Which Human Beings Are To Live And Move. Men Do Not Live To Breathe: They Breathe To Live.

The Last Thing It [government] Ought To Do Is To Ground Its Proceedings On The Ignorance Of The People, - To Yield Them That Which They Will Hereafter Despise The Donors For Granting Them.

Who Is Apt, On Occasion, To Assign A Multitude Of Reasons When One Will Do? This Is A Sure Sign Of Weakness In Argument.

A Soul Occupied With Great Ideas Performs Small Duties.