A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.

When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

It is not the feeling sure of a doctrine (be it what it may) which I call an assumption of infallibility. It is the undertaking to decide that question for others, without allowing them to hear what can be said on the contrary side. And I denounce and reprobate this pretension not the less, if put forth on the side of my most solemn convictions.

There is no 'one-size-fits-all' way to build an audience.