"Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants, like a maker of pincushions; thou art in truth a speaker of shorthand."

"If by religion, we are understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on…"

"Bonaparte has often made his boast, that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea, that his was kept …"

"The duty to prosecute, or not to prosecute, is a social and not a legal duty, which depends on the circumst…"

"All things lie dark in possibility."

"When a community has sufficiently advanced so that its government begins to take on that of the nature of a…"

"True democracy consists not in lowering the standard but in giving everybody, so far as possible, a chance …"