Herbert Spencer

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires ...

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment t ...

The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the ...

Feudalism, serfdom, slavery, all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kind to rule, ...

Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, bu ...

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, minist ...

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a cer ...

Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dor ...

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in ever ...

Regarding language as an apparatus of symbols for the conveyance of thought, we may say that, as in ...

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.