So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

All people are most credulous when they are most happy.

Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.