Writing is the thing that props me up.
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
Eloquence is logic on fire.
[Disestablishment was] the best thing that ever happened to the state of Connecticut. It cut the churches loose from dependence on state support. It threw them wholly on their own resources and on God.
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it
Breaking up: It's so easy to return their possessions, but so hard to get our brain cells back.
There are people who say they can , others they can not. In general, they are all right.
When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.
Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.