The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.

The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow from it ; and by observing how these differ from the real phenomena, we learn what corrections to make in our assumption.

If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilisation, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a necessary part and condition of all those things; there would be no danger that liberty should be undervalued.

Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action.

All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.