A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.
Education is preparation to live completely.
All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.
Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.
Science is organized knowledge.
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.
Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that by due skill an ill working humanity may be framed into well-working initiations. It is delusion. The defective natures of citizens will show themselves in bad acting of whatever social structure they are arranged into. There is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of laden instincts.
Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.
Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".
Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.
Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
Government is essentially immoral.
Every cause produces more than one effect.
Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is in all cases the same — less government.
Every unpunished delinquency has a family of delinquencies.
The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in the home.
The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty that we are over in the presence of an Infinite, Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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