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

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

All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

We must infer that a plant or animal of any species, is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to aggregate into the form of that species: just as in the atoms of a salt, there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to crystallize in a particular way.‎

To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.