Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but the very plants are at war.... The individuals of a species are like the crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land.

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.

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.

Elohim was, in logical terminology, the genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, and Jahveh were species. The Israelite believed Jahveh to be immeasurably superior to all other kinds of Elohim. The inscription on the Moabite stone shows that King Mesa held Chemosh to be, as unquestionably, the superior of Jahveh.

Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt.