Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.

Trust me, there are as many ways of living as there are men, and one is no more fit to lead another, than a bird to lead a fish, or a fish a quadruped.

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.

But of course, the universe does not conspire to put you in one place rather than another.

And still they gazed and still the wonder grew That one small head should carry all it knew.

Order is Heaven's first law.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better.

The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.

I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into an imaginary world that I'd seen at a distance for years.

It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.