Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended.

The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a séance.

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.

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

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

What men need is, as much knowledge as they can assimilate and organize into a basis for action; give them more and it may become injurious. One knows people who are as heavy and stupid from undigested learning .