We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.
To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.
Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process, is small compared with the cruelty of a God who condemns men to tortures which are eternal.