Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.

My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?

The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

A population may be too crowded, though all be amply supplied with food and raiment. It is not good for a man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species.

But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.

Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.