Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.

Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy souls, grievously wronged; and none of them are thought of as bearing the penalties of their misdeeds.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such actual occurrence, this preposterous misrepresentation of it would never have existed. Though the distorted or magnified image transmitted to us through the refracting medium of rumour, is utterly unlike the reality; yet in the absence of the reality there would have been no distorted or magnified image.

Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.