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.

Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.