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

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.

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

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.

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