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

Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization

Veracity is the heart of morality.

I have never had the least sympathy with the a priori reasons against orthodoxy, and I have by nature and disposition the greatest possible antipathy to all the atheistic and infidel school. Nevertheless I know that I am, in spite of myself, exactly what the Christian would call, and, so far as I can see, is justified in calling, atheist and infidel.

It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the direction of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.