What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

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.

So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.

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

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.