When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.

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

Reading is seeing by proxy.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious-it is the refusal to study the surrounding creation that is irreligious.

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.

It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.