Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.

My dear, we live in an age of transition.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.

The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.