The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

I emphasize the reply that the liberty which a citizen enjoys is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the relative paucity of the restraints it imposes on him.

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

Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.

Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.

We must infer that a plant or animal of any species, is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to aggregate into the form of that species: just as in the atoms of a salt, there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to crystallize in a particular way.‎

It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.