The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.

The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.

The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

Science is organized knowledge.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.