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

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters.

A people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are unequal to the exertions necessary for preserving it. They are more or less unfit for liberty; and although it may be for their good to have had it even for a short time, they are unlikely long to enjoy it

Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.