Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.

Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually king of his company.

On religion in particular the time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have on mature consideration satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false but hurtful, to make their dissent known.

The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows.