Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it.

The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.

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

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.' At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.