We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.

Mechanizing man's work had changed but not lighted his toil.

The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they are), cannot comprehend why those ways should not be good enough for everybody; and what is more, spontaneity forms no part of the ideal of the majority of moral and social reformers, but is rather looked on with jealousy, as a troublesome and perhaps rebellious obstruction to the general acceptance of what these reformers, in their own judgment, think would be best for mankind.

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

Trade is a social act.