Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious-it is the refusal to study the surrounding creation that is irreligious.

It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.