We must infer that a plant or animal of any species, is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to aggregate into the form of that species: just as in the atoms of a salt, there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to crystallize in a particular way.‎

The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

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

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.

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

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.