The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not from Christian; as, even in the morality of private life, whatever exists of magnanimity, high-mindeness, personal dignity, even the sense of honour, is derived from the purely human, not the religious part of our education, and never could have grown out of a standard of ethics in which the only worth, professedly recognized, is that of obedience.

The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism.

I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.

So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.