Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor.

Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions and extensions of the franchise, their effect being to place the principal power in the hands of classes more and more below the highest level of instruction in the community.