Agnostics are people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and theologians, both orthodox and heterodox, dogmatize with the utmost confidence.

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

Policeman are soldiers who act alone; soldiers are policeman who act in unison.

The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.

Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.