Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals.

When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens.

In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.

It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.

The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have some cause; some antecedent, upon the existence of which it is invariably and unconditionally consequent.

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

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