Reading is seeing by proxy.

The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for them, and nothing by them. Every generation is made less familiar with the attainment of desired ends by individual actions or private agencies; until, eventually, governmental agencies come to be thought of as the only available agencies.

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.‎

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

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.