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.

If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude to acquire these kinds of knowledge in the same order. So that even were the order intrinsically indifferent, it would facilitate education to lead the individual mind through the steps traversed by the general mind. But the order is not intrinsically indifferent; and hence the fundamental reason why education should be a repetition of civilization in little.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.

No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.

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