Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.

The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.

Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.

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.

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

Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.