A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has, the greater is his confusion.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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.
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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.
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.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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.
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
