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| Men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men | | Uncategorized | |
| Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. | | Uncategorized | |
| Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread. | | Uncategorized | |
| No stronger case can be shown for prohibiting anything which is regarded as a personal immorality, than is made out for suppressing these practices in the eyes of those who regard them as impieties; and unless we are willing to adopt the logic of per | | Uncategorized | |
| Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. | | Uncategorized | |
| One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests. | | Belief | |
| Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. | | Originality | |
| Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. | | Uncategorized | |
| Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. | | Opinions | |
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| That miscellaneous collection of a few wise and many foolish individuals, called the public | | Uncategorized | |
| That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time | | Uncategorized | |
| That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next | | Uncategorized | |
| The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. | | Uncategorized | |
| The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. | | Uncategorized | |
| The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. | | Truth | |
| The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine. | | Uncategorized | |
| The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it. | | Uncategorized | |
| The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism | | Uncategorized | |
| The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind | | World | |
