Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

All socialism involves slavery.

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

The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.

If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, then he is free to drop connection with the state-to relinquish its protection, and to refuse paying toward its support.

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.‎

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.