The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.

Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.

Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually king of his company.

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

It is a law, that every event depends on some law.