A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of ...

Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan fo ...

If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.

Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but whic ...

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.