Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently, yet more peculiarly the sin of little than of great minds.

How prone we are to come to the consideration of every question with heads and hearts pre-occupied! How prone to shrink from any opinion, however reasonable, if it be opposed to any, however unreasonable, of our own! How disposed are we to judge, in anger, those who call upon us to think, and encourage us to enquire! To question our prejudices seems nothing less than sacrilege; to break the chains of our ignorance, nothing short of impiety!

Trust me, there are as many ways of living as there are men, and one is no more fit to lead another, than a bird to lead a fish, or a fish a quadruped.

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.