 A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it. |
| Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious. |
| What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man. |
| In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances. |
| The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. |
| We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced. |
| Government is essentially immoral. |
| How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. |
| Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. |
| A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance. |
| Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society. |
| The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. |
| No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. |
| Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit. |
| The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship. |
| Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. |
| Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. |
| Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. |
| Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding. |
| All socialism involves slavery. |
