The business of everybody is the business of nobody.

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?

The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.

We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative.

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.