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

Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so.

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

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

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

Reading is seeing by proxy.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.