Herbert Spencer

"Those who have helped mankind have always been lonely figures."

"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment."

"The primary principle of true education is to imitate the processes of nature."

"Perfect adaptation is the death of progress."

"Nature has no mercy at all."

"In every person there is a leader seeking expression."

"The great commandment of life is to work."

"The ultimate moral law is that which conduces to the greatest happiness."

"We are not to expect to see the seed and the plant in their full development at once."

"Memory, like a drug, should be used with caution."

"The right of the strongest is the only right."

"Wars continue while the ad interim advantage accrues to the stronger side."

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

"The only true freedom is the freedom within."

"A man without purpose is like a ship without a rudder."

"Sympathy is a human instinct that saves society."

"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts."

"Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations."

"To have become a philosophical spirit is to have become a citizen of the world."

"Change is inevitable. Progress is not."

"The mind of man is capable of anything."

"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends than good men should do nothing."

"Every mind must make its own journey."

"The individual is to society what the cell is to the organism."

"Man can act as though his future were entirely within his own control."

"We are suffering from too much legislation."

"The goal of true education is to create beings who act from internal conviction."

"Most people think too little before speaking and too much after."

"Strength and success are not accidents but products of thought."

"Fear is the parent of cruelty."