Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.