Unearned increment of value.

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea.

So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything that is usual appears natural. The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural.

Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection.