Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so.

We must infer that a plant or animal of any species, is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to aggregate into the form of that species: just as in the atoms of a salt, there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to crystallize in a particular way.‎

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

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

All socialism involves slavery.