Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

Thus the radii of all education run together into one center which is called personality.

Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom good maxims have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in.

Liberty of the people is not my liberty!

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion.