The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good.

Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny, which it is in their nature and in their futurity to accomplish.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are the subject of Intuition, or Consciousness; the latter, of Inference; the latter of Inference. The truths known by Intuition are the original premisses, from which all others are inferred.

It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed.

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

With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.