When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.
Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.
The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.