The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.

People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.

We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.

The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.