The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.

Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear; so surely must man become perfect.

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

Policeman are soldiers who act alone; soldiers are policeman who act in unison.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.