A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.

The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

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.

Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.

The idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest.

My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?