Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself

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

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.