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

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.

No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.

Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.