Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

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.

To say that secular means irreligious implies that all the arts and sciences are irreligious, and is very like saying that all professions except that of the law are illegal.

Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.

There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.