Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.

The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. The first of these a just philosophy will probably induce us universally to explode.