I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation.

The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.

Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.

In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.

The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.