Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.

Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilisation, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a necessary part and condition of all those things; there would be no danger that liberty should be undervalued.