Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

No one can help another very much in these crises of life; but love and sympathy count for something.

Man's Place in Nature.

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.

That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the State of Art of an organized polity; in which, and by which, man may develop a worthy civilization

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

A man who speaks out honestly and fearlessly that which he knows, and that which he believes, will always enlist the good will and the respect, however much he may fail in winning the assent, of his fellow men.