"When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion."

"What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man."

"Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him."

"Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, therefore, be a Phocion or Pythagorean, to speak briefly to the point or not at all; let him labor like them of Crete, to show more wit in his discourse than words, and not to pour out of his mouth a flood of the one, when he can hardly wring out of his brains a drop of the other."

"In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man."

"Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear; so surely must man become perfect."

"Sundry manifestations of nature in men and women, are greatly perverted by existing social conventions upheld by both. There are feelings which, under our predatory régime, with its adapted standard of propriety, it is not considered manly to show; but which, contrariwise, are considered admirable in women. Hence repressed manifestations in the one case, and exaggerated manifestations in the other; leading to mistaken estimates."

"Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man."

"Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense."

"Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression."