The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.

Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas.

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.

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

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.

Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew nothing but political economy (and therefore knew it ill) have taken upon themselves to advise, and could only do so by such lights as they had.