All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.

What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there is no want of the former. To produce, implies that the producer de_sires to consume; why else should he give himself useless labor? He may not wish to consume what he himself produces, but his motive for producing and selling is the desire to buy. Therefore, if the producers generally produce and sell more and more, they certainly also buy more and more.

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.

When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.

The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism.

God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.

On religion in particular the time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have on mature consideration satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false but hurtful, to make their dissent known.