A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility.

Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.

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

In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric.

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings