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

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.

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.

For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening.

The greatest trick Christianity ever pulled was convincing the world that Satan exists.

When both partners strive for a marriage that honours and pleases God, they can be assured of an everlasting joy and peace.

Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are.

Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it.

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.

Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.

It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives

The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.

The true man breathes with his heels.