A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.
Herbert Spencer

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Herbert Spencer

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
Herbert Spencer

All socialism involves slavery.
Herbert Spencer

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.
Herbert Spencer

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
Herbert Spencer

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

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

Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spencer

Every cause produces more than one effect.
Herbert Spencer


Government is essentially immoral.
Herbert Spencer

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

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Herbert Spencer

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

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

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.
Herbert Spencer

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

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

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

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
Herbert Spencer