Though it is only in a very imperfect state of the world's arrangements that anyone can best serve the happiness of others by the absolute sacrifice of his own, yet, so long as the world is in that imperfect state, I fully acknowledge that the readiness to make such a sacrifice is the highest virtue which can be found in man.

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.

To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures.

He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.

Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.