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

A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility.

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

‎A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.

Every one is degraded, whether aware of it or not, when other people, without consulting him, take upon themselves unlimited power to regulate his destiny.