If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

Matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless.

Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.

Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men