We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.

Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.

Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.