Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

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

The maxim is, that whatever can be affirmed (or denied) of a class, may be affirmed (or denied) of everything included in the class. This axiom, supposed to be the basis of the syllogistic theory, is termed by logicians the dictum de omni et nullo.

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.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.