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….

Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense..

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare..

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman..

Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted..

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts..

Each new ontological theory, propounded in lieu of previous ones shown to be untenable, has been followed by a new criticism leading to a new sceptic….

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible..

Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely must t….

Evil perpetually tends to disappear..

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold..

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one..

Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and….

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect..

Lusts are like agues; the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease; and some men's lusts, like some agues, have not such quick….

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance..

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman..

Noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers..

Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy s….

Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with man as a product of evolution, wi….

There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural aptitude. A ….