I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.
What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be treated, if he were in their place?
The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.