The idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest.

The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

The United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation because most of its citizens are white. We are Americans because we practice democracy and believe in republican government, not because we practice revealed religion and believe in Bible-based government.

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.

The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows.