What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.

So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life.

Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.

There is a very real evil consequent on ascribing supernatural origin to the received maxilms of morality. That origin consecrates the whole of them and protects them from being discussed or criticized.

Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.