To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

After all, the only proper intoxication is conversation.

People don’t get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don’t know each other. They don’t know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other.

One of the most pathetic—and dangerous—signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarters, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Born, n. a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.