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

That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.

I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone.

Man's Place in Nature.

The vast results obtained by Science are won by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes other than those which are practicedby every one of us, in the humblest and meanest affairs of life. A detective policeman discovers a burglar from the marks made by his shoe, by a mental process identical with that by which Cuvier restored the extinct animals of Montmartre from fragments of their bones.