The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

I have been swamped with tremendous response. I am expecting a huge crowd.

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

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.

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

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

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.

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

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

The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.

Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they.

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.