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

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of the cerebrum subserve different kinds of mental action. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever: separateness of duty is universally accompanied with separateness of structure: and it would be marvellous were an exception to exist in the cerebral hemispheres.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.