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

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

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

Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines.

Government is essentially immoral.

The chief arguments that are urged against an established religion, may be used with equal force against an established charity. The dissenter submits, that no party has a right to compel him to contribute to the support of doctrines, which do not meet his approbation. The rate-payer may as reasonably argue, that no one is justified in forcing him to subscribe towards the maintenance of persons, whom he does not consider deserving of relief.