Increasing power of a growing administrative organization is accompanied by decreasing power of the rest of the society to resist its further growth … - Herbert Spencer

We have a priori reasons for believing that in every sentence there is some one order of words more effective than any other; and that this order is the one which presents the elements of the proposition in the succession in which they may be most readily put together.

The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.

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