[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom.

Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?

Tobacco . . . is not prohibited in the Scriptures, though, as Samuel Butler points out, St. Paul would no doubt have denounced it if he had known of it.