One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

The beliefs which we have most warrant for have no safeguard to rest on but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded. If the challenge is not accepted, or is accepted and the attempt fails, we are far enough from certainty still; but we have done the best that the existing state of human reason admits of; we have neglected nothing that could give the truth a chance of reaching us.

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.

Language is the light of the mind