We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

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.

All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

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