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

The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

Education is preparation to live completely.

This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in the home.