Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.

Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .

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

Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.