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Reading is seeing by proxy.
All socialism involves slavery.
Science is organized knowledge.
Government is essentially immoral.
Evil perpetually tends to disappear.
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
Every cause produces more than one effect.
Liberty is not the right of one, but of all.
Education is preparation to live completely.
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.
In societies of low civilization, there is no money.
The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.
Every unpunished delinquency has a family of delinquencies.
Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
Noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers.
The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.
Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.
The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.
This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.
The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race.
Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.
Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.
Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Policeman are soldiers who act alone; soldiers are policeman who act in unison.
Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.
The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.