Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

Let everyone regulate his conduct… by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

Good wits will jump.

No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

They’re just actors. I much prefer the real thing!

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?