The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they are though….

Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in….

If on one day we find the fast-spreading recognition of popular rights accompanied by a silent, growing perception of the rights of women, we also fi….

Reading is seeing by proxy..

Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution..

With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior..

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror..

If men were wise they would see that the affection that God has implanted in us is amply sufficient, when not weakened by artificial aid, to ensure p….

I emphasize the reply that the liberty which a citizen enjoys is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental machinery he lives under, whet….

As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a mor….

What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not to administer charity; not….

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him..

Every cause produces more than one effect..

Education is preparation to live completely..

Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life..

Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good….

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm..

Agnostics are people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and t….

Sundry manifestations of nature in men and women, are greatly perverted by existing social conventions upheld by both. There are feelings which, unde….

How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the necessary instrument of it, we shall clearly perceive on remembering the co….

The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for them, and not….