I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.