There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.

Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission.

The supernatural is being swept out of the universe in the flood of new knowledge of what is natural. It will soon be as impossible for an intelligent, educated man or woman to believe in a god as it is now to believe that earth is flat, that flies can be spontaneously generated, that disease is a divine punishment, or that death is always due to witchcraft.

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

Natural knowledge, seeking to satisfy natural wants, has found the ideas which can alone still spiritual cravings. I say that natural knowledge, in desiring to ascertain the laws of comfort, has been driven to discover those of conduct, and to lay the foundations of a new morality.