If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the intellectual grounds of it should require to be backed by moral bribery or subornation of the understanding.

To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.

All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.

What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.

In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.

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

Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.