"This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."

All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.

Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.