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.‎

To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.

Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

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.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.