The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.

The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

Some people are born very far from home.

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior...

Let there be worse cotton and better men.

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.