Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint.

The English, of all ranks and classes, are at bottom, in all their feelings, aristocrats. They have some concept of liberty, and set some value on it, but the very idea of equality is strange and offensive to them. They do not dislike to have many people above them as long as they have some below them.

The great majority of those who speak of perfectibility as a dream, do so because they feel that it is one which would afford them no pleasure if it were realized.

They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time.

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.