“All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.” — John Stuart Mill

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.