During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

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

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

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.