Language is the light of the mind

The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal.

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.

Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend to only one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood.