Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.
Science is the natural ally of religion.
What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.
What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.