As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.

The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal.

The legal subordination of one sex to another - is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a system of perfect equality, admitting no power and privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.

If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments which the most skillful devil's advocate can conjure up.

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

It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine.

The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.