Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs..

Originally consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking unlike other people..

A well-judging man will open his trunk-line of study in such a direction that, while habitually adhering to it, he may enjoy a ready access to such o….

Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint..

To try to regulate the internal affairs of a family, the relations of love or friendship, or many other things of the same sort, by law or by the coe….

Each must act as he thinks best; and if he is wrong, so much the worse for him. We stand on a mountain pass in the midst of whirling snow and blindin….

The only shape in which equality is really connected with justice is this - justice presupposes general rules. If these general rules are to be maint….

To me this question whether liberty is a good or a bad thing appears as irrational as the question whether fire is a good or a bad thing. It is both ….

Parliamentary government is simply a mild and disguised form of compulsion. We agree to try strength by counting heads instead of breaking heads, but….

Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at fi….

The result of cutting [political power] up into little bits is simply that the man who can sweep the greatest number into one heap will govern the re….

Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the ….

Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts..

To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack..

A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are..

Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other..

The things which cannot be adequately represented by words are more important than those which can..