Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

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.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.