A people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are unequal to the exertions necessary for preserving it. They are more or less unfit for liberty; and although it may be for their good to have had it even for a short time, they are unlikely long to enjoy it

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

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

It is only in the backward countries of the world that increased production is still an important object.

The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.

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.

My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?