Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are the subject of Intuition, or Consciousness; the latter, of Inference; the latter of Inference. The truths known by Intuition are the original premisses, from which all others are inferred.

It is only in the backward countries of the world that increased production is still an important object.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov't.

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

Was there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it?

I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind could devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it.