The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.

To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth

Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

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

In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.