Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams.

The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed.

My reflection, when I first made myself master of the central idea of the 'Origin', was, 'How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!'

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

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

If the twentieth century is to be better than the nineteenth, it will be because there are among us men who walk in Priestley's footsteps....To all eternity, the sum of truth and right will have been increased by their means; to all eternity, falsehoods and injustice will be the weaker because they have lived.

Natural knowledge, seeking to satisfy natural wants, has found the ideas which can alone still spiritual cravings. I say that natural knowledge, in desiring to ascertain the laws of comfort, has been driven to discover those of conduct, and to lay the foundations of a new morality.