Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.

In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.