It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and phy….

The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually n….

Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization..

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage"..

No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts..

If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, an….

Government is essentially immoral..

The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry..

The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by th….

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere….

The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings..

To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth..

So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious-it is the refusal to study the surrounding cre….

Every unpunished delinquency has a family of delinquencies..

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity..

The chief arguments that are urged against an established religion, may be used with equal force against an established charity. The dissenter submi….

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance..

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances..

People ... become so preoccupied with the means by which an end is achieved, as eventually to mistake it for the end. Just as money, which is a means….

The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in the ….

Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man..