John Stuart Mill

"Beauty and goodness are manifested in simplicity."

"Conservatism, being an institution of society to preserve its existing state, is necessarily averse to sudden and violent change."

"The feeling of happiness is seldom the direct object of pursuit."

"Great men are almost always bad men."

"Intelligence is revocable only because it is subject to the limitation of human nature and knowledge."

"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs."

"In every person there is a natural tendency to goodness."

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."

"It is impossible that all can be of one opinion."

"Labor as much as you can; it is your portion of life."

"The cultivation of an enlarged desire is essential to the wellbeing of mankind."

"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to die is a man who has nothing for which he is willing to live."

"Whatever help we can give to the poor without encouraging indolence should be given."

"Power to demand what you believe is justice."

"The equality of rights is the basis of all democracy."

"Life is not to be successfully pursued on a comfortable materialism."

"The natural remedy for an injury is the expression of it."

"Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience."

"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so."

"The mind of man is capable of anything."

"Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived."

"The danger of improvement is constantly losing touch with the present."

"Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness."

"A few new thoughts to mankind has ever been granted by those that do not grow better and more intelligent."

"The moral and intellectual character of a people may be inferred from the highest things they choose to know."

"Every great movement of thought and action has to encounter the opposition of mediocrities."

"The love of money is a most respectable motive, provided it is subservient to another motive."

"The evidence that belief is real is that it produces action."

"There is absolutely no ground for the assumption that wisdom and virtue are more available to the generality of mankind."

"Individuality is the same thing with development."