When there are persons to be found, who form an exception to the apparent unanimity of the world on any subject, even if the world is in the right, i… - John Stuart Mill

It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine.

Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.

There is no reason that all human existence should be constructed on some one or some small number of patterns. [...] A man cannot get a coat or a pair of boots to fit him, unless they are either made to his measure, or he has a whole warehouseful to choose from: and is it easier to fit him with a life than with a coat, or are human beings more like one another in their whole physical and spiritual conformation than in the shape of their feet?