There is no 'one-size-fits-all' way to build an audience.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal.

‎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.

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.

However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.