The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism.

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

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences.

The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England

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