There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!

The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.

So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov't.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

It is useful that while mankind are imperfect there should be different opinions, so is it that there should be different experiments of living; that free scope should be given to varieties of character, short of injury to others.

In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.