As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

If it were only that people have diversities of taste, that is reason enough for not attempting to shape them all after one model. But different persons also require different conditions for their spiritual development, and can no more exist healthily in the same moral, than all the varieties of plants can in the same physical, atmosphere and climate.

So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew nothing but political economy (and therefore knew it ill) have taken upon themselves to advise, and could only do so by such lights as they had.

Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.