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.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines.

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.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.