For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.

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

I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be real, based upon observation, eked out by good explanatory diagrams and models, and conveyed by a teacher whose own knowledge has been acquired by a study of the facts; and not the mere catechismal parrot-work which too often usurps the place of elementary teaching.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.