The idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

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

The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear from thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.

Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

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.