It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.

Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero.

Girls must be thwarted early in life.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.