It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.

No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.

A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.

So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious-it is the refusal to study the surrounding creation that is irreligious.

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.

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

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.