... 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

It’s amazing the damage we do to ourselves and others when all we’re trying to do is protect ourselves from being hurt.

What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other.

Loving a man shouldn't have to be this rough

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

Love me tender, love me true, all my dreams fulfill. For my darling, I love you, and I always will.

Don't hold me to anything in the book. I'm a waffler. I like wafflers. They said John Kerry was a waffler, but I admired him for that - showed he could change his mind.

I don't think I'd like to argue with you," I say. "I think it would be a very dissatisfying pastime.

Compassion is the greatest form of love humans have to offer.

I appeal to your own eyes as my witness and judge.

A fusty nut with no kernel.