A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.

What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?

Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of things; and whilst some languages, given a man's constitution and habits, may seem more beautiful and convenient to him than others, it is a foolish heat in a patriot to insist that only his native language is intelligible or right.