Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members

Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.