He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.

The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The very corner-stone of an education intended to form great minds, must be the recognition of the principle, that the object is to call forth the greatest possible quantity of intellectual power, and to inspire the intensest love of truth.

There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.

With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals.

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.