The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally be found persons to rediscover it

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

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

A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

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