 The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter. |
| The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. |
| We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one. |
| Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. |
| Education has for its object the formation of character. |
| A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. |
| Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance. |
| The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. |
| Science is organized knowledge. |
| Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold. |
| People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal. |
| The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. |
| Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage". |
| Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. |
| When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. |
| The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong. |
| Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. |
| Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. |
| Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost. |
| Every cause produces more than one effect. |
