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

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions and extensions of the franchise, their effect being to place the principal power in the hands of classes more and more below the highest level of instruction in the community.

Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.

Mechanizing man's work had changed but not lighted his toil.