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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

Herbert Spencer

Word

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

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

Herbert Spencer

Life

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Herbert Spencer

Freedom

Every cause produces more than one effect.

Herbert Spencer

Cause

Effect

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

Herbert Spencer

Kings

Right

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Herbert Spencer

Civilization

Progress

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Herbert Spencer

Happiness

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

All socialism involves slavery.

Herbert Spencer

Slavery

Socialism