Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on, I think we would agree on that that's a more toxic and contentious issue, granting full amnesty.

Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

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