Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

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

To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we cannot conceive the contrary of any belief may be a presumption, but is certainly no proof, of its truth.

Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.

In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the agnostic faith, which if a man keep whole and undefiled, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in store for him.

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.