"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."

"Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, …"

"The love of money is the root of all evil: but the love of liberty is the root of all good."

"The world would be a gainer if it were more generally understood that the present moral education of mankind is of a very imperfect kind."

"The subjection of women is an evil, and a hindrance to human improvement."