The essence of morality is the subjugation of nature in obedience to social needs.

Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man.

Our opinions are less important than the spirit and temper with which they possess us, and even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in a broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

This is ever the test of the scholar: whether he allows intellectual fastidiousness to stand between him and the great issues of his time.

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

Here is the end of the Eternal Verities, when one lets them bulk so big in his eyes as to shut out that perishable speck, the human race.

He who hates vices hates men.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.