if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.

The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.

Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend to only one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood.

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing others down to its own level.