The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the revelation was not binding.

All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

In a democracy it is necessary that people should learn to endure having their sentiments outraged.

For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals.

One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought we did