However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.

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

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

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

If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, then he is free to drop connection with the state-to relinquish its protection, and to refuse paying toward its support.