The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

[Science is] piecemeal revelation.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.