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

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.

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

The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.

No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

If on one day we find the fast-spreading recognition of popular rights accompanied by a silent, growing perception of the rights of women, we also find it accompanied by a tendency towards a system of non-coercive education--that is, towards a practical illustration of the rights of children.

Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.