The happy people are those who are producing something.

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.

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.

Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.

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

There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.