Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.