We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.

Science is organized knowledge.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

All socialism involves slavery.

Government is essentially immoral.

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.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.