The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.

It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.

To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens.

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

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.