The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ... It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they like.

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.

Language is the light of the mind

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

He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.

[A] man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing "what nobody does," or of not doing "what everybody does," is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.

The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.