Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea. To add to the mystery, the domain of our earthly existence is not only an island of infinite space, but also in infinite time. The past and the future are alike shrouded from us: we neither know the origin of anything which is, nor its final destination.

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

The legal subordination of one sex to another - is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a system of perfect equality, admitting no power and privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.

The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.

The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind - the lower animals.

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