In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.

It can do truth no service to blind the fact, known to all who have the most ordinary acquaintance with literary history, that a large portion of the noblest and most valuable moral teaching has been the work not only of men who did not know, but of men who knew and rejected the Christian faith.

Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.

[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.