Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process, is small compared with the cruelty of a God who condemns men to tortures which are eternal.

The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

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

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.