Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.

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.

Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

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