All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising

The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.

The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.