Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

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

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.

No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of the cerebrum subserve different kinds of mental action. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever: separateness of duty is universally accompanied with separateness of structure: and it would be marvellous were an exception to exist in the cerebral hemispheres.

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.

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.