Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such actual occurrence, this preposterous misrepresentation of it would never have existed. Though the distorted or magnified image transmitted to us through the refracting medium of rumour, is utterly unlike the reality; yet in the absence of the reality there would have been no distorted or magnified image.

Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is in all cases the same — less government.

A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.

In societies of low civilization, there is no money.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.