Quotes from James Fitzjames Stephen

A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.

Originality consists in thinking for yourself, not in thinking differently from other people.

Complete moral tolerance is possible only when men have become completely indifferent to each other—that is to say, when society is at an end.

Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.

To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.