Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is in all cases the same — less government.

Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.

Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

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

The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that by due skill an ill working humanity may be framed into well-working initiations. It is delusion. The defective natures of citizens will show themselves in bad acting of whatever social structure they are arranged into. There is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of laden instincts.