The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such actual occurrence, this preposterous misrepresentation of it would never have existed. Though the distorted or magnified image transmitted to us through the refracting medium of rumour, is utterly unlike the reality; yet in the absence of the reality there would have been no distorted or magnified image.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

If on one day we find the fast-spreading recognition of popular rights accompanied by a silent, growing perception of the rights of women, we also find it accompanied by a tendency towards a system of non-coercive education--that is, towards a practical illustration of the rights of children.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

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

No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.