It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything especially as I am now so much occupied with theology but I don't see my way to your conclusion.

There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.

Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.