When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for them, and nothing by them. Every generation is made less familiar with the attainment of desired ends by individual actions or private agencies; until, eventually, governmental agencies come to be thought of as the only available agencies.

Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines.

Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.

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

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

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.