We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

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

Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to do so. And if this inference is unquestionable, then is the one above deduced from it-that humanity must in the end become completely adapted to its conditions-unquestionable also. Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity.

Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.