Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice.

Reprimand not a child immediately on the offence. Wait till the irritation has been replaced by serenity.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.