I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made.

The question was, whether, if the reformers of society and government could succeed in their objects, and every person in the community were free and in a stat…

Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance w…

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

The first intellectual operation in which I arrived at any proficiency, was dissecting a bad argument, and finding in what part the fallacy lay; and though wha…

Education: 'Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the…

I was educated once, and it took me years to get over it.