The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

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

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, then he is free to drop connection with the state-to relinquish its protection, and to refuse paying toward its support.

If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?

No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.