If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Suicide is not a remedy

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.