That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

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

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

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.

It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to a particular phase of human development. It is not essential, but incidental. As amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government, so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct.

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

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